Re: [Rd] Best way to handle dependency on non-CRAN package / large data package?

2015-03-12 Thread arilamstein
Hi Dirk, I'm interested in pursing this but I haven't been able to figure how to to make it work. Here's what I have so far: install.packages("drat") library(drat) addRepo("arilamstein") I (obviously) have a copy of the choroplethrZip github repo locally.

Re: [Rd] Best way to handle dependency on non-CRAN package / large data package?

2015-03-12 Thread arilamstein
Thanks Dirk. I'm looking at it now. At first glance your documentation brings up a good limitation of simply telling users to type "devtools::install_github()". Namely, what happens when the census bureau updates their shapefiles, and I subsequently decide to update the package? Or if I discover a

[Rd] Best way to handle dependency on non-CRAN package / large data package?

2015-03-12 Thread arilamstein
I have just written a package called choroplethrZip <https://github.com/arilamstein/choroplethrZip> which contains a shapefile and metadata on US Zip codes. It is currently hosted on github, has a tagged version number (v1.0.0) and passes R CMD check as verified by Travis. My plan is to us