[Rd] Best practices - R CMD check and vignettes

[James MacDonald]

Hi,

I have a package that contains two vignettes that both use saved objects 
in the examples directory of the package. With previous versions of R I 
could have a code chunk in the vignette like this:

<<echo=false>>=
load("../examples/somedata.Rdata")
@

followed by a code chunk like

<<eval=false>>=
foo <- bar("data")
@

that simulated the actual reading in of the data (I use a saved object 
to limit package size).

This passed check with previous versions of R, but under R-2.6.0alpha, 
the vignettes are dumped into an inst directory in the <package>.Rcheck 
directory, where Sweave() and texi2dvi() are run. Unfortunately, the 
above code chunks no longer work.

I can certainly hard code the first chunk to find the .Rdata file, but I 
have to imagine there is a much more elegant way to do this.

Any suggestions?

Best,

Jim


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