Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0408271649200.6790-100000@gannet.stats>
Date: 2004-08-27T17:52:58Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: Packing of data files in packages
In-Reply-To: <412F55B7.4040306@acelerate.com>
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
^^^^^^^^
> 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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