I believe that was my boneheaded error.. checking now.. Yup Thanks guys!
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de > wrote: > > > On 17.08.2012 07:24, steven mosher wrote: > >> " R CMD build is how you preferably should be creating your package tar >> ball, so you simply add the --resave-data argument to your already >> existing >> R CMD build call which creates the tar ball from your source directory. So >> can you elaborate on "doesn't do anything I can see"? In what sense? No >> output? No compression? " >> >> my tarball builds with > R CDM build mattools >> >> where mattools is the name of the package. and I get a warning on R CMD >> check. >> >> Things I tried >> >> R CMD build --resave-data >> R CMD build mattools --resave-data >> R CMD build --resave-data mattools >> >> The first does nothing, the second fails on unknown options and the third >> fails on unknown options. So I found the help for R CMD >> >> Now that I figured out how to display help for R CMD build I see that >> >> --resave-data must include a specification of the type of compression >> >> --resave-data="best" for example >> >> I ran that. and got the same error indicating that the rda file had not >> been compressed. >> >> checking data for non-ASCII characters ... OK >> * checking data for ASCII and uncompressed saves ... WARNING >> Warning: large data file(s) saved inefficiently: >> size ASCII compress >> zagoskin.rda 137Kb FALSE none >> >> Note: significantly better compression could be obtained >> by using R CMD build --resave-data >> old_size new_size compress >> modpoll.rda 124Kb 78Kb xz >> zagoskin.rda 137Kb 6Kb bzip2 >> >> Building under windows so I wonder if I am missing a system file required >> to do the compression. >> > > > > Are you checking the tarball (as recommended) or the source dir? The > compressed versions are in the tarball. The source dir is not changed. > > Uwe Liges > > > > > > > > >> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Simon Urbanek >> <simon.urba...@r-project.org>**wrote: >> >> >>> On Aug 16, 2012, at 5:08 PM, steven mosher wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I have two .rda files that I need to include in a package. I've placed >>>> them both in a data directory >>>> after save() the are around 150Kb each. >>>> >>>> When I try to check the package I get the following warning >>>> >>>> Warning: large data file(s) saved inefficiently: >>>> size ASCII compress >>>> zagoskin.rda 137Kb FALSE none >>>> >>>> Note: significantly better compression could be obtained >>>> by using R CMD build --resave-data >>>> old_size new_size compress >>>> modpoll.rda 124Kb 78Kb xz >>>> zagoskin.rda 137Kb 6Kb bzip2 >>>> >>>> Both of these files modpoll.rda and zagoskin.rda have already been >>>> compressed from megabytes down to Kb. >>>> >>>> Also,, the instructions "R CMD build --resave-data" doesnt do >>>> >>> anything >>> >>>> that I can see so I must be using it wrong. >>>> >>> >>> R CMD build is how you preferably should be creating your package tar >>> ball, so you simply add the --resave-data argument to your already >>> existing >>> R CMD build call which creates the tar ball from your source directory. >>> So >>> can you elaborate on "doesn't do anything I can see"? In what sense? No >>> output? No compression? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Simon >>> >>> >>> Is there a piece of the puzzle I am missing or instructions better than >>>> these: I tried LazyDataCompression and my >>>> data.rdb is 90Kb. >>>> >>>> "Package *tools* has a couple of functions to help with data images: >>>> checkRdaFiles reports on the way the image was saved, and resaveRdaFiles >>>> >>> will >>> >>>> re-save with a different type of compression, including choosing the >>>> best >>>> type for that particular image. >>>> >>>> Some packages using LazyData will benefit from using a form of >>>> compression other than gzip in the installed lazy-loading database. This >>>> can be selected by the --data-compress option to R CMD INSTALL or by >>>> >>> using >>> >>>> the LazyDataCompression field in the DESCRIPTION file. Useful values >>>> >>> are >>> >>>> bzip2, xz and the default, gzip. The only way to discover which is best >>>> >>> is >>> >>>> to try them all and look at the size of the pkgname/data/Rdata.rdb >>>> file." >>>> >>>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>>> >>>> ______________________________**________________ >>>> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/**listinfo/r-devel<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<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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