[Bioc-devel] Loading a file for vignette

[Robert Gentleman]

Douglas Bates wrote:
> On 2/26/07, Sean Davis <sdavis2 at mail.nih.gov> wrote:
>> I would like to make a vignette that will instruct the user to load a file
>> from a package distribution using one of the packages R functions.  The file
>> is not a .txt file (or any of the other file types that should be in the data
>> directory of a package).  Of course, the vignette needs to build and I would
>> like to have those commands be the same as those used by the user.  I have
>> looked around a bit and the packages that I have found do a simple
>> load(somedata) where somedata is an R data file.  Is there a way to start
>> directly from the original file, or am I better off creating the R object and
>> loading it and simply telling the user how I created it?  This is a VERY
>> small point, but I'm curious.
> 
> There are examples like this in the Matrix package on CRAN.  You can
> put the data in a directly that will get installed with the package
> (say myPackage/inst/exampleData) then use the system.file() function
> to get you the path to where it is installed.

  and many Bioconductor packages, such as Biobase, the convention has 
been to use inst/extdata in Bioconductor packages...

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