[R] How to see data for a package built under Windows

[John Fox]

Dear Gillian,

Unless you add the directive 

	LazyData: yes

to the package DESCRIPTION file, you'll need to use the data() command to
access the data in the package -- e.g., data(Mowatt).

I hope this helps,
 John

------------------------------
John Fox, Professor
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
On
> Behalf Of Gillian Raab
> Sent: June-14-08 7:49 AM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] How to see data for a package built under Windows
> 
> I have followed the instructions on how to build a Windows package and
> everything seems to work EXCEPT that I can't see the data files that I
have
> loaded into the data directory. I have placed the appropriate data in the
> data directory (as in the instructions). There are 3 data sets, which I
can
> see when I use the command in R. Details below. I have searched everywhere
> to try to fix this, but no luck. Help please.
> 
> Gillian Raab, Edinburgh, Scotland
> 
> > data(package='DiagMeta')
> 
> a windows pops up containing the following (Mowatt has a comment because I
> have documented it)
> 
> Data sets in package 'DiagMeta':
> 
> Mowatt                  Mowatt meta analysis
> Scheidler
> Wardlaw
> 
> 
> But when I type
> >Mowatt  it is not found.
> 
> The output I get at the command prompt when creating the zip file gives
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings\gillian raab\Desktop\francescaR>R CMD INSTALL
> --build
> DiagMeta
> installing to 'c:/PROGRA~1/r/R-27~1.0/library'
> 
> Using auto-selected zip options ''
> 
> ---------- Making package DiagMeta ------------
>   adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION
>   installing R files
>   installing data files
>   preparing package DiagMeta for lazy loading
> Loading required package: lme4
> Loading required package: Matrix
> Loading required package: lattice
> 
> Attaching package: 'Matrix'
> 
> 
>         The following object(s) are masked from package:stats :
> 
>          xtabs
> 
> Warning in namespaceImportFrom(self, asNamespace(ns)) :
>   replacing previous import: cov2cor
> Warning in namespaceImportFrom(self, asNamespace(ns)) :
>   replacing previous import: update
> Warning in namespaceImportFrom(self, asNamespace(ns)) :
>   replacing previous import: xtabs
>   installing man source files
>   installing indices
>   not zipping data
>   installing help
>  >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'DiagMeta'
>      Formats: text html latex example chm
>   Mowatt                            text    html    latex
>   antilogit                         text    html    latex   example
>   bivarROC                          text    html    latex
>   logit                             text    html    latex   example
>   plotfor                           text    html    latex   example
>   twouni                            text    html    latex   example
>   adding MD5 sums
> 
> packaged installation of package 'DiagMeta' as DiagMeta_1.01.zip
> * DONE (DiagMeta)
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings\gillian raab\Desktop\francescaR>
> 
> I
> --
> Gillian M Raab
> 10 Ainslie Place EH3 6AS
> tel 0131 226 6234
> mobile 07748 678 551
> 
> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.