[R-pkg-devel] Example files for functions reading binary files
Rafael, I believe the issue is that packages cannot include binary *executables.* If you have a binary file (such as a parquet file) in inst/extdata, I do not think that would be a problem. It would be a good idea to ensure that that file is small, though. I think downloading a file is a big no no to be ran on CRAN machines. I would personally advise against downloading anything. On Sun, Dec 3, 2023 at 9:54?AM Rafael Ayala Hernandez <
Rafael.AyalaHernandez at oist.jp> wrote:
ello, I have added some functions to read binary files in my asteRisk package. The binary files that are read contain just arrays of coefficients and metadata about these. I would like to provide a small file of these to be used in the examples of the man page for the functions that read them. However, section 1.1 of "Writing R Extensions? states that no binary files are accepted in submissions to CRAN (https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html) I was wondering if it would be acceptable to download the example file to a temporary file in the example themselves (and in fact, also in unit tests), and then read it from there? I could not find any statement against this in ?Writing R Extensions?, but I would like to confirm that this is OK to do before submitting an updated version of the package to CRAN. Thanks a lot in advance Best wishes, Rafa [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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