Generally you will want to use an application directory for storing these files (a la rappdirs) and, importantly, allow the user to consent to these files being downloaded and installed, which should not be done on load.
On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 13:24 Ronald Bergmann <i...@black-snow.net> wrote: > Hi r-package-devel, > > we'll soon make our first submission to CRAN (hopefully). While there's > still stuff to do* and while we're waiting for an update to one of the > dependencies I'd kindly like to ask if anyone would mind taking a quick > look at the repository to assess if the overall structure seems fine. > > Here's the repo: https://github.com/haganjam/FW_invert_biomass_allometry > > One thing is that the package requires a couple of database files, which > are about 20 MB in size and rather growing than shrinking. A standalone > data package didn't seem like a good solution to me, so I added a zzz.R > file to load the required files on install time (well, initialization / > load time, it is). Makes sense to me but I don't know if this will be fine > with CRAN. > > Thanks a lot in advance and have a great week! > Cheers > > > * pipelines are pretty much copypasta and failing > * waiting for fixes in one of the dependencies > * tests need some love > * still gotta test file path resolution / whether to drop here > > ______________________________________________ > 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
