I believe that was my boneheaded error.. checking now.. Yup

Thanks guys!

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Uwe Ligges <ligges@statistik.tu-dortmund.de
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> On 17.08.2012 07:24, steven mosher wrote:
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>> " R CMD build is how you preferably should be creating your package tar
>> ball, so you simply add the --resave-data argument to your already
>> existing
>> R CMD build call which creates the tar ball from your source directory. So
>> can you elaborate on "doesn't do anything I can see"? In what sense? No
>> output? No compression? "
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>> my tarball builds with   > R CDM build mattools
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>> where mattools is the name of the package. and I get a warning on R CMD
>> check.
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>> Things I tried
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>> R CMD build --resave-data
>> R CMD build mattools --resave-data
>> R CMD build --resave-data mattools
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>> The first does nothing, the second fails on unknown options and the third
>> fails on unknown options. So I  found the help for R CMD
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>> Now that I figured out how to display help for  R CMD build  I see that
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>> --resave-data   must include a specification of the type of compression
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>> --resave-data="best"   for example
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>> I ran that.  and got the same error indicating that the   rda file had not
>> been compressed.
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>>   checking data for non-ASCII characters ... OK
>> * checking data for ASCII and uncompressed saves ... WARNING
>>    Warning: large data file(s) saved inefficiently:
>>                  size ASCII compress
>>    zagoskin.rda 137Kb FALSE     none
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>>    Note: significantly better compression could be obtained
>>          by using R CMD build --resave-data
>>                 old_size new_size compress
>>    modpoll.rda     124Kb     78Kb       xz
>>    zagoskin.rda    137Kb      6Kb    bzip2
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>> Building under windows so I wonder if I am missing a system file required
>> to do the compression.
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> Are you checking the tarball (as recommended) or the source dir? The
> compressed versions are in the tarball. The source dir is not changed.
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> Uwe Liges
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>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Simon Urbanek
>> <simon.urbanek@r-project.org>**wrote:
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>>> On Aug 16, 2012, at 5:08 PM, steven mosher wrote:
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>>>  Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have two  .rda files that I need to include in a package.  I've placed
>>>> them both in a data directory
>>>> after  save()  the are around  150Kb  each.
>>>>
>>>> When I try to check the package I get the following warning
>>>>
>>>> Warning: large data file(s) saved inefficiently:
>>>>                 size ASCII compress
>>>>   zagoskin.rda 137Kb FALSE     none
>>>>
>>>>   Note: significantly better compression could be obtained
>>>>         by using R CMD build --resave-data
>>>>                old_size new_size compress
>>>>   modpoll.rda     124Kb     78Kb       xz
>>>>   zagoskin.rda    137Kb      6Kb    bzip2
>>>>
>>>> Both of these files modpoll.rda and zagoskin.rda  have already been
>>>> compressed from megabytes down to Kb.
>>>>
>>>> Also,, the  instructions    "R CMD build --resave-data"  doesnt do
>>>>
>>> anything
>>>
>>>> that I can see so I must be using it wrong.
>>>>
>>>
>>> R CMD build is how you preferably should be creating your package tar
>>> ball, so you simply add the --resave-data argument to your already
>>> existing
>>> R CMD build call which creates the tar ball from your source directory.
>>> So
>>> can you elaborate on "doesn't do anything I can see"? In what sense? No
>>> output? No compression?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Simon
>>>
>>>
>>>  Is there a piece of the puzzle I am missing or instructions better than
>>>> these: I tried  LazyDataCompression and my
>>>> data.rdb is 90Kb.
>>>>
>>>> "Package *tools* has a couple of functions to help with data images:
>>>> checkRdaFiles reports on the way the image was saved, and resaveRdaFiles
>>>>
>>> will
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>>>> re-save with a different type of compression, including choosing the
>>>> best
>>>> type for that particular image.
>>>>
>>>> Some packages using ŚLazyData‚ will benefit from using a form of
>>>> compression other than gzip in the installed lazy-loading database. This
>>>> can be selected by the --data-compress option to R CMD INSTALL or by
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>>> using
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>>>> the ŚLazyDataCompression‚ field in the DESCRIPTION file. Useful values
>>>>
>>> are
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>>>> bzip2, xz and the default, gzip. The only way to discover which is best
>>>>
>>> is
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>>>> to try them all and look at the size of the pkgname/data/Rdata.rdb
>>>> file."
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