[R-pkg-devel] How and where do I document sysdata.rda

[Jeff Newmiller]

Did you seriously look for instructions and not find [1]? And why do you think the answer should not involve Rd files? Documentation in R packages is what Rd files are for.

If you don't want to mess with Rd files then you have no choice but to use something like the Roxygen package to mess with them for you... but that just kicks the can down the road .. Rd files are always involved.

[1] https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-devel/R-exts.html#Documenting-data-sets

On March 20, 2025 7:39:39 AM PDT, Lists <lists using dewey.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
>I want to put a look-up table into sysdata.rda to avoid having to compute it everytime. At the moment I create it and save the resulting file and then manually copy it to sysdata.rda. This works but the package now contains no documentation about the look-up table.
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>Most of the information which I turned up online involves doing it all indirectly using various packages. I do not want to do that, I am quite happy editing files by hand and moving them to where I want them by hand. So what I need is to know where I should put the documentation and what format it should be assuming it is not an Rd file.
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>Of course what I want may be impossible and I just need to document it in the script which creates it but that seems messy.
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>Michael Dewey
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