[R-pkg-devel] Saving binary files in a package
On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
On 4 July 2015 at 09:12, Thierry Onkelinx wrote: | You have no guarantee that the user has write access to those folders. So | you might want to rethink your strategy. Seconded. And I am not aware of a good cross-platform solution so your best bet may be to require the user to specify a filename.
One attempt to correctly locate the right place to save files (i.e. the user data dir) is http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rappdirs/index.html, a fork of the python appdirs (https://github.com/ActiveState/appdirs). There's no guarantee that these places will be writeable, but they're probably a reasonably good place to start. Hadley