[R] How to add example data to R package

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
Sat Jun 19 14:15:11 CEST 2010



On 18.06.2010 13:57, wenjun zheng wrote:
> Dear R Users,
>
>      I want to add an data in raw type to my package, so it can not be
> loading by data(), and if I put it in the 'data' subdirectory, it will be
> missed after the package built.

No, it should stay there, but you have to say

ZipData: no

in your DESCRIPTION file in order to avoid it being zipped up when the 
binary package is built.

If you want to put it somewhere else, use the ./inst directory of the 
source package. For more details see the manual "Writing R Extensions".

Uwe Ligges


>
>      How to put a raw  data into a package?
 >
>      Any suggestions will be appreciated.
>



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