[R] Issue with dataset inclusion in CRAN packages

[Frank Harrell]

I was wrong about this.  The dataset is small.  Most of the space is taken up
by a nice tutorial on rpart.plot.  Still I would favor linking to datasets
rather than duplicating part of them.
Thanks
Frank

Frank Harrell wrote:
> 
> I was glad to see the new rpart.plot package by Stephen Milborrow.  I was
> however a bit concerned that Stephen distributed a dataset I created, and
> renamed the dataset (from titanic3 to ptitanic) in the process [with some
> justification, as some variables were omitted].  Fortunately Stephen
> included the script he used to download the dataset from our web site, and
> gave full credit to us.  What concerns me is that the rpart.plot package
> does not contain many functions but the package is as large as packages
> containing hundreds of functions.  This is due to the inclusion of the
> dataset.  I would prefer that authors provide the URL so that users can
> easily install the binary R binary dataframe directly from our web site
> (we even have an automated way to do this: require(Hmisc);
> getHdata(titanic3)).  This will allow users to profit from possible future
> data corrections as well as making the package much more compact.  Thanks
> for listening.  I'm writing to r-help because this may applied to other R
> packages as well.
> 
> Frank
> 


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Frank Harrell
Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University
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