On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Robin Hankin wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am writing a package in which a function needs a dataset (of
> precomputed Stirling
> numbers) to work. The .rda file resides in the data/ directory.
>
> Toy example follows:
>
>
> f <- function(x){
> data(logS1)
> . . . do stuff . . .
> return(answer)
> }
>
>
> Is this a good way to do this?
> What is best practice in such situations?
This is exactly what the sysdata.rda facility is provided for: see
`Writing R Extensions'. (It works best for packages with namespaces, as
then its content is by default not exported.)
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