[R] Including data when building an R package in windows

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 09/05/2007 6:12 AM, michael watson (IAH-C) wrote:
> Turns out calling the file DetectiV.rda (rather than .Rdata) fixed it.

The documentation says to use ".RData", not ".Rdata".  Case-sensitivity 
is important here, because you're building something that is supposed to 
be portable across many platforms.

Duncan Murdoch

> Odd.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: michael watson (IAH-C)
> Sent: Wed 09/05/2007 11:09 AM
> To: michael watson (IAH-C); r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: RE: [R] Including data when building an R package in windows
>  
> I forgot to mention.  After using package.skeleton(), I replaced the six .rda files with a single .Rdata file that contained all six data frames.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch on behalf of michael watson (IAH-C)
> Sent: Wed 09/05/2007 10:58 AM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] Including data when building an R package in windows
>  
> I've done this before, but when I tried the same thing this time, it didn't work.
> 
> I'm using R 2.4.1 on windows.
> 
> I have 6 data frames that I want to include in a package I am building.  Instead of making users issue six different "data(...)" commands, I want to wrap them all up in one file so that users issue one "data(...)" command and have access to all six data sets.
> 
> I had the functions and data loaded in R, nothing else, used package.skeleton() to create the structure.
> 
> Edited everything I needed to (help etc)
> 
> Ran "R CMD INSTALL --build DetectiV" in MS-DOS, the package built.
> 
> Installed the zip file.  Everything fine.
> 
> In R:
> 
>> library(DetectiV)
>> data(DetectiV)
> Warning message:
> data set 'DetectiV' not found in: data(DetectiV) 
> 
> C:\Program Files\R\R-2.4.1\library\DetectiV\data contains filelist and Rdata.zip.
> 
> filelist is:
> 
> DetectiV.Rdata
> filelist
> 
> Rdata.zip contains a file called DetectiV.Rdata.
> 
> This the exact same structure I have in place for another of my packages - and that one works when I issue data(...) commands, whereas this one doesn't.
> 
> So, any ideas what I am doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks
> Mick
> 
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