@Uwe - OK, makes sense. I will read the file into an object and save it as a .Rda in the data folder. Thank you. -- Sanjeev M
On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 2:36 PM Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote: > > > On 20.12.2022 00:58, Sanjeev Sariya wrote: > > Hi, > > thank you for the reply. > > > > Do you need this to be a file? Could it be a pre-parsed R object > > instead? > > Yes, and that can go into an .RData file. > > Best, > Uwe Ligges > > > > > I need to provide an external data/file in the R package. This has come > as > > a request from F1000 journal editors. > > > > One way to solve this could be to write a script that imports the file > > from inst/extdata using the facilities provided by your package and put > > it in a file under data/, then document the resulting object. > > > > > > What do you call this step? How do I do this? > > I thought to loading the file as lazyload, .onload package something? > > > > Best, > > -- > > Sanjeev M > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 1:55 AM Ivan Krylov <krylov.r...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 20:59:27 +0530 > >> Sanjeev Sariya <sanjeevsar...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>> ... I have created a .Rd file. > >>> I'm interested in listing this file in data() ... > >> > >> My understanding is that data() is for R-level objects, and so is > >> help(), most likely. > >> > >> One way to solve this could be to write a script that imports the file > >> from inst/extdata using the facilities provided by your package and put > >> it in a file under data/, then document the resulting object. I think > >> that if you build your package with --no-resave-data, it will remain an > >> R script that will be run during the data() call. (By default, your R > >> script will be run during R CMD build and its output will be packaged > >> into a gzip-compressed RData file.) > >> > >> This might go against the guidance at > >> <https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html#Data-in-packages>, > >> which says: > >> > >>>> R code should be if possible “self-sufficient” and not make use of > >>>> extra functionality provided by the package, so that the data file > >>>> can also be used without having to load the package or its namespace > >> > >> Do you need this to be a file? Could it be a pre-parsed R object > >> instead? > >> > >> -- > >> Best regards, > >> Ivan > >> > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
