[Rd] Package installation and path.package

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 9 September 2013 at 09:26, Simon Urbanek wrote:
| On Sep 9, 2013, at 4:22 AM, Simon Zehnder wrote:
| > I am writing right now my own package that makes use of 'tempfile' and
| > there within with 'path.package'. When I install it, I get the error: Error
| > in path.package("mypackage") : none of the packages are loaded. Here is the
| > code, I use in my package:
[...]
| That path to your package is dynamic - in general it will not be know when
| creating the lazy-load DB, so you really want to put that code in .onLoad()
| where the path is known. 

And you may want to use   system.file()   rather than path.package(), at
least if I understand the question right.

Here is what I use to share the bibtex file for the Rcpp vignettes with other
Rcpp* package vignettes:

   R> system.file(package="Rcpp", "doc", "Rcpp.bib")
   [1] "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/Rcpp/doc/Rcpp.bib"
   R> 

Answer conditional on my particular Linux system, but the path is guaranteed
to be valid as long as Rcpp is installed which one can ensure via Depends:
from another package.

Dirk

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