Problem with distributing data in package.
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Simon Knapp <sleepingwell at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi List, I am building a package for a client to help them create and perform analyses against netcdf files which contain 'a temporal stack' of grids. For my examples and test cases, I create an example dataset in code (as this is a lot more space efficient than providing raw data). The code creates a netcdf file in tempdir() and an object of class 'ncdf' in the global namespace. I have placed the code in a .R file in the data directory of my package and 'load' it with a call to data().
Why not just put the function that generates the data file into the usual place (/R/ folder) and document it so that the user knows to run 'sampledata=makeSampleNCDF()' before doing things that need it? Trying to put executable code into the data folder does seem a bit perverse! Barry