[R-pkg-devel] referring to a package data object by two names

[Berry Boessenkool]

Another approach, maybe overkill / not thought through:


latestLandmark <- function()
 {
 files <- dir(file.path(system.file(package="yourpackage"), "data"),
              pattern="landmark", full.names=TRUE)
 env <- environment()
 dataset <- load(tail(files, 1), envir=env)
 return(invisible(get(dataset, envir=env)))
 }

landmark <- latestLandmark()


Regards,
Berry


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From: R-package-devel <r-package-devel-bounces at r-project.org> on behalf of Gregory Jefferis <jefferis at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 8, 2017 14:45
To: Michael Dewey
Cc: r-package-devel at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] referring to a package data object by two names

Dear Michael,

Many thanks for writing.

> Do any of the suggestions in section 1.5.3 of Writing R Extensions "Load hooks" work?

I thought I had tried all the various permutations in .onLoad but at your prompting I tried some more and this seems to work:

.onLoad <- function (libname, pkgname) {
  # set up default landmarks object
  assign('landmarks',
         envir = parent.env(environment()),
         testdataalias::landmarks.2017)

}

It doesn't seem to tickle R CMD check, but I'm not yet convinced that it is[[elided Hotmail spam]]

Best wishes,

Greg.

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