Dear Prof. Ripley,
It worked. Thank you very much for a useful tip.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Use system.file().  But please don't put your files in the data directory:
> as the manual says.
>
>  The data subdirectory is for additional data files the package makes
>  available for loading using data().
>
> So if you put your data files in inst/sbml, your example becomes
>
> abc(fname = system.file(package="mypackage", "sbml", "xxx.sbml"))
>
> since this will be mypackage/sbml/xxx.sbml when installed.
>
> There are several examples on CRAN, e.g. rgdal.
>
>
>
> On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Hang PHAN wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>>
>> I am building the package in R using
>>
>>  R CMD build -force ./mypackage
>>>
>>
>> and check it using
>>
>>  R CMD check ./mypackage
>>>
>>
>> However I have a problem when running the examples in the manual files.
>> The
>> problem is that I used a specifice type of file that is not table, thus I
>> guess data() can't be use to indicate the use of that particular file in
>> the
>> directory data/. Do you have any idea how I can pass the name of this data
>> file as a string into the arguments of my function
>>
>> e.g. in abc.Rd
>> \Examples{
>> ss<- abc(fname = "xxx.sbml")
>> }
>> where xxx.sbml is a file in the data/ directory.
>>
>> Again, thanks very much and looking forwards to your reply.
>>
>> Phan Hang
>>
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