[Rd] Canonical package directory name for JAR files?

Roebuck,Paul L proebuck at mdanderson.org
Wed Feb 8 17:13:58 CET 2012


On 2/7/12 5:37 PM, "Simon Urbanek" <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:

> On Feb 7, 2012, at 4:34 PM, Roebuck,Paul L wrote:
> 
>> We have an R package which needs to include a JAR file.
>> Is there a canonical directory for it?
> 
> rJava defines "java" for that purpose (see ?.jpackage).
> How canonical that is may be open for debate ;)

Yeah, when I wrote Java stuff, that was the Java source code
root directory. Yet, 'lib' (which was the directory where JAR
files lived in Java projects) seems inappropriate for non-Java
projects.

But 'java' appears to be the de-facto standard for R packages,
so...



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