I would think that putting them in an appropriate subdirectory in inst might be preferable, e.g. inst/examples, and then reading the data in with ?system.file where necessary?
(I have frequently been instructed that data ought not be mixed with code, as it makes both code and data harder to read, maintain, or reuse. On the other hand, if there's a good reason to avoid system.file for this, I'd be happy to be enlightened so that I too could improve my practices). Cheers, Carl On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.ga...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you want to keep it as text, then you can just put it in the code: > > mydata <- > '"","mpg","cyl","disp","hp","drat","wt","qsec","vs","am","gear","carb" > "Mazda RX4",21,6,160,110,3.9,2.62,16.46,0,1,4,4 > "Mazda RX4 Wag",21,6,160,110,3.9,2.875,17.02,0,1,4,4 > "Datsun 710",22.8,4,108,93,3.85,2.32,18.61,1,1,4,1 > ' > > and then you can read from it via text connections: > > read.csv(textConnection(mydata)) > > Gabor > > On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Keirstead, James E > <j.keirst...@imperial.ac.uk> wrote: >> I saw that, but actually I was wondering if there was a more general method. >> I’d like to use plain text files if I can, instead of Rda files, since >> they’re easier to maintain (and it’s a small file). >> >> On 4 Aug 2014, at 16:30, Jeroen Ooms <jeroen.o...@stat.ucla.edu> wrote: >> >>>> I’m developing a package and would like to include some data sets for >>>> internal use only, e.g. configuration parameters for functions. What is >>>> the preferred way of doing this? If I put them in data/, then R CMD check >>>> asks me to document them but I’d prefer it if they floated beneath the >>>> surface, without the users awareness. >>> >>> Perhaps in sysdata.rda. See "Writing R Extensions". >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- Carl Boettiger UC Santa Cruz http://carlboettiger.info/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
