[Rd] Preferred way to include internal data in package?
Charles Berry
ccberry at ucsd.edu
Mon Aug 4 22:04:45 CEST 2014
Keirstead, James E <j.keirstead <at> imperial.ac.uk> writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> I’m developing a package and would like to include some data sets for
> internal use only, e.g.
> configuration parameters for functions. What is the preferred way of
> doing this? If I put them in data/,
> then R CMD check asks me to document them but I’d prefer it if they
> floated beneath the surface, without
> the users awareness.
>From WRE Section 1.1.6 Data in packages:
[The data subdirectory] should not be used for other data files needed by
the package, and the convention has grown up to use directory inst/extdata
for such files.
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So, put them in inst/extdata.
HTH,
Chuck
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