bzip2'ed data under data/

On 19/03/2012 20:25, Sebastian P. Luque wrote:

Hi,

R CMD check PACKAGE_VERSION_tar.gz gives warning:

Files not of a type allowed in a ?data? directory: ?tser1.csv.bz2?
?tser2.csv.bz2? Please use e.g. ?inst/extdata? for non-R data files

which I didn't expect, based on section 1.1.5 (Data in packages) of
the Writing R Extensions manual:

Tables (`.tab', `.txt', or `.csv' files) can be compressed by `gzip',
`bzip2' or `xz', optionally with additional extension `.gz', `.bz2'
or `.xz'.  However, such files can only be used with R 2.10.0 or
later, and so the package should have an appropriate `Depends' entry
in its DESCRIPTION file.

In this case, I have a Depends: R (>= 2.13.0), and the package was
built with R version 2.15.0 beta (2012-03-16 r58769), Platform:
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit), so I don't understand the warning.

Cheers,

Well, the extension is allowed 'optionally' to be .csv.bz2, but that
does not make it good practice and I would suggest not using it.

But that 'check' picked it up was a typo in the code 'check' used to
specify types of data() files, corrected since your build of R so I
would expect current R-devel or R-pre-release not to give the NOTE.  I
am not sure whether or not that has any ramifications for users of the
package with older versions of R, but we know calling the compressed
file foo.csv would work.