Thank you for your response. Yes, using a call to data() after 1) building and 2) installing my own package is exactly what I'm trying to accomplish. I am building a package. I would like to load the data objects that are part of the custom package that I have created and installed on my machine. Apologies if I wasn't clear about that part.
2011/3/28 Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> > > > On 24.03.2011 16:51, andrew stewart wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I have,say 4 R objects... bar1, bar2, bar3, bar4.. that I'd like to >> include >> in an R package "foobar". >> >> The desired functionality would be: >> >> library(foobar) >>> data(foo) >>> ls() >>> >> [1] "bar1" "bar2" "bar3" "bar4" >> >> I've tried the following two approaches: >> >> 1) I created the file 'datalist' under pre-build directory 'foobar/data/' >> with the following contents: >> foo: bar1 bar2 bar3 bar4 >> >> After package build and install, "data(foo)" reports that data set 'foo' >> not >> found (bar1, bar2, etc are all available individually, and are listed >> under >> data() as "bar1 (foo)". >> > > > If you want just one object "foo", then prpare a list > > foo <- list(bar1,...) > > that contains the 4 objects bar1, ... . > You can load that objects and access the list components afterwards. > > I think you misunderstood the data concept: You can save objects and load > them if the package is installed. That's it. > > Best, > Uwe Ligges > > > > 2) I created an image via save.image resulting in foo.rda (containing >> bar1, >> bar2, etc). >> >> data(foo) now loads bar1 - bar4, but 'foo' doesn't appear in the list of >> available datasets displayed when trying to tab complete within data(). >> >> >> So my question is, what's the correct approach for what I'm trying to do >> here? Any advice welcome and appreciated. >> >> Thanks, >> Andrew >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
