To give some background: it is true that the RGsetEx object (in
data/RGsetEx.rda) is a 1-1 correspondence with the raw data files in
inst/extdata, so one could consider it redundant.  However, having the IDAT
files are convenient for testing parsing, and also for other tools who want
to have 450k example data and not want to depend on minfi.  Those are the
two main reasons for including the raw data as well.  And then the fact
that while the data size is "big" it is only 6 samples.

Best,
Kasper


On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Nicolas De Jay <nicolas.dejay@mail.mcgill.ca
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am preparing a data package and using the minfiData package as a
> reference.  The .idat files in extdata and the .rda file in data are
> both present in both the compressed tarball source and the installed
> copy directory (in my case, under ~/R/x86-64.../3.0/minfiData).  Isn't
> this redundant?  Is there a way to have the prospective user only
> download the .rda files?
>
> Sorry if my question is misguided and thanks in advance for your help.
>
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