[R] data files for packages

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Mikkel Grum wrote:

> This must be really simple and clearly expained
> somewhere, but I can't find it. I'm writing an
> R-package and want to create data sets for the
> examples.  How do I save them in the format needed for
> a package?

It's in `Writing R Extensions' (in the subsection entitled `Package
subdirectories') and also in ?data.  There are several possible formats.

If the question was how to produce .rda files, use for dataset foo

    save(foo, file="foo.rda", compress=TRUE)


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