[R-pkg-devel] Scripts to generate data objects

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 30 March 2016 at 14:03, Iago Mosqueira wrote:
| What is the best way of keeping R scripts that are used to generate the data files in the data/ folder? These are not meant to be available to the user, but I would like to keep them in the package itself. Right now I am storing them inside data/, for example PKG/data/datasetone.R to create PKG/data/dataseton.RData, and then adding those R files to .Rbuildignore.
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| Are there any other sensible ways of doing this?

For gunsales we keep it simple:
    https://github.com/NYTimes/gunsales/blob/master/R/data.R

It is both a convenience for us (when more data gets released) and
documentation for the user.  

Dirk

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