[R] "source" command inside R package scripts

[Hadley Wickham]

Your source function will be called when the package is _built_, not
when it's loaded/attached. There's almost certainly a better way to
solve your problem than using source() inside a package

Hadley

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 6:24 AM, Enrico Bibbona <enrico.bibbona at unito.it> wrote:
> I have built a new package. I would like to put an R script (let us call it
> "script.R) into a subdirectory of the /pkg/R/ directory, called /pkg/R/sub/
> and I would like that such code is run when the package is installed.
>
> My way of doing so was to put an R script into /pkg/R/ with source command
> like
>
> source("./R/sub/script.R")
>
> that does not give me any error, but I know that the script (which
> actuallly defines a few functions is not run. What is wrong? What can I do
> better?
> Thanks, Enrico
>
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> Enrico Bibbona
> Dipartimento di Matematica
> Università di Torino
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