Packing of data files in packages
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:
Hola! I am writing a package with some large data files, so it would be good to use the feature of zipping data. However, I use .R files to read in the data from one (sometimes more) files, so Rcmd build --zip-data
I think you mean Rcmd INSTALL here: build --binary is just a wrapper
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gives a package which does'nt work. How should I do it, is it better ti zip each data file individually and use the functions to read from zipped files, or are there some other solution? Did'nt find anything in "Writing R extensions".
Did you notice about .rda files? Writing compressed .rda files is the best way to provide large datasets.
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