[R-pkg-devel] In R package directory, where to put results for some long-taking simulations I want to use in README / vignette?

[Marta Karaś]

Cool, thanks! 100% clear and very helpful, I appreciate your answer a lot!

Bests / Pozdrawiam,
Marta Karas





On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 3:58 PM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 17/12/2018 12:54 PM, Marta Karaś wrote:
> > For my R package, I want to demonstrate some benchmark results that take
> a
> > while to generate. I want to present the results in both README and
> > vignette.
> >
> > I thought a way to go is to have a README.Rmd code chunk with generates
> the
> > results with `eval = FALSE`, which I run in R console and save the table
> in
> > some place within a package, and then read the saved table and display it
> > in both README.Rmd (in a next chunk) and in the vignette Rmd file.
> >
> > Questions:
> >
> >     - What is the proper subdirectory (naming, location) I should save
> >     the results into?
>
> either data/ or inst/<your choice>/ would be fine.  Use data if you want
> these to be easily available to package users, some private name if you
> don't.
>
> >     - Should I out this subdirectory into .gitignore, or rather keep them
> >     (i.e., they would be available to anybody who downloads package's
> source
> >     files from CRAN?)
>
> What you put in .gitignore is up to you.  Do you want version control on
> these files?  Usually derived objects like your benchmark results aren't
> put in version control, you just put in the code to generate them.  But
> in this case, you might find it interesting to compare current results
> with historical ones, and version control would let you do that.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Marta
> >
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