Message-ID: <3F97FC3D.8090305@bankofcanada.ca>
Date: 2003-10-23T18:00:07Z
From: Paul Gilbert
Subject: Accessing data files w/ --use-zip-data
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.20.0310231116360.13471-100000@santiam.dfci.harvard.edu>
Jeff Gentry wrote:
>...
>The issue that Duncan suggested I raise is whether or not it should be
>considered accepted behaviour for a package author to be accessing files
>in <pkg>\data (at this time I don't know the reasoning behind the specific
>example here, I just know that that's what they've done) or if this should
>be considered a Bad Thing.
>
I do this in some instances where I have data in a format not supported
by data(), for example, database files that are used by package
programs or tests (but I have always wondered if it is "the right" thing
to do). If it is considered a Bad Thing then there needs to be another
location for files like this, perhaps inst/data or something like that.
Paul Gilbert