can install.packages() copy utility files to the public_html directory ?

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Dear fellow R-users,
I am about to publish an HTML utility package to CRAN that expands on the
R2HTML package and includes a few goodies such as sorted tables, easy
automation of framed HTML reporting, etc.
However, some of the resulting dynamic HTML pages need to access JavaScript
code that should sit in a specific subdirectory of public_html.
My more general question is hence, (i) how do I include the directory
containing the JavaScript code in my R package and 
Yes, in directory ./inst/JavaScript for example that is copied to 
./JavaScript during installation of the package.
(ii) is it possible to
copy this directory to the user's public_html path during installation ?
Yes, if it is a source package (not for a binary package), BUT you 
should not write such code that copyies files to a directory different 
than the package's directory in the library that it is installed to. 
Things that install files to suprising locations are sometimes 
considered to be some kind of malware.

Uwe Ligges
Thanks!
Markus

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2009/5/4 Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>:

Markus Loecher wrote:
Dear fellow R-users,
I am about to publish an HTML utility package to CRAN that expands on the
R2HTML package and includes a few goodies such as sorted tables, easy
automation of framed HTML reporting, etc.
However, some of the resulting dynamic HTML pages need to access
JavaScript
code that should sit in a specific subdirectory of public_html.
My more general question is hence, (i) how do I include the directory
containing the JavaScript code in my R package and
Yes, in directory ./inst/JavaScript for example that is copied to
./JavaScript during installation of the package.

(ii) is it possible to
copy this directory to the user's public_html path during installation ?
Yes, if it is a source package (not for a binary package), BUT you should
not write such code that copyies files to a directory different than the
package's directory in the library that it is installed to. Things that
install files to suprising locations are sometimes considered to be some
kind of malware.

Also not all uses of R2HTML would be for use with a web
server at all.  Also you can't assume the directory is public_html
even if it is on a server.