On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:35:15 +0000, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 19/03/2012 20:25, Sebastian P. Luque wrote: >> Hi, >> R CMD check PACKAGE_VERSION_tar.gz gives warning: >> Files not of a type allowed in a ‘data’ directory: ‘tser1.csv.bz2’ >> ‘tser2.csv.bz2’ Please use e.g. ‘inst/extdata’ for non-R data files >> which I didn't expect, based on section 1.1.5 (Data in packages) of >> the Writing R Extensions manual: >> Tables (`.tab', `.txt', or `.csv' files) can be compressed by `gzip', >> `bzip2' or `xz', optionally with additional extension `.gz', `.bz2' >> or `.xz'. However, such files can only be used with R 2.10.0 or >> later, and so the package should have an appropriate `Depends' entry >> in its DESCRIPTION file. >> In this case, I have a Depends: R (>= 2.13.0), and the package was >> built with R version 2.15.0 beta (2012-03-16 r58769), Platform: >> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit), so I don't understand the warning. >> Cheers, > Well, the extension is allowed 'optionally' to be .csv.bz2, but that > does not make it good practice and I would suggest not using it. Does this mean we can still compress the files, but leave the file name with suffix *.csv (i.e. not adding the compression-specific suffix)? The 2 files I'm including in the package are a little over 1 Mb, and bzip2 gets them down to < 150 Kb. > But that 'check' picked it up was a typo in the code 'check' used to > specify types of data() files, corrected since your build of R so I > would expect current R-devel or R-pre-release not to give the NOTE. I > am not sure whether or not that has any ramifications for users of the > package with older versions of R, but we know calling the compressed > file foo.csv would work. Up to R 2.14.2, R CMD check was reporting a Warning, rather than a Note, but indeed the latest R-devel and R-pre-release don't. Thanks. Cheers, -- Seb ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
