On May 14, 2015 15:04, "January Weiner" <january.wei...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear all, > > I am writing a vignette that requires a file which I am not allowed to > distribute, but which the user can easily download manually. Moreover, it > is not possible to download this file automatically from R: downloading > requires a (free) registration that seems to work only through a browser. > (I'm talking here about the MSigDB from the Broad Institute, > http://www.broadinstitute.org/gsea/msigdb/index.jsp). > > In the vignette, I tell the user to download the file and then show how it > can be parsed and used in R. Thus, I can compile the vignette only if this > file is present in the vignettes/ directory of the package. However, it > would then get included in the package -- which I am not allowed to do. > > What should I do? > > (1) finding an alternative to MSigDB is not a solution -- there simply is > no alternative. > (2) I could enter the code (and the results) in a verbatim environment > instead of using Sweave. This has obvious drawbacks (for one thing, it > would look incosistent). > (3) I could build vignette outside of the package and put it into the > inst/doc directory. This also has obvious drawbacks. > (4) Leaving this example out defies the purpose of my package. > > I am tending towards solution (2). What do you think?
Not clear how big of a static piece you're taking about, but maybe you could set it up such that you use (2) as a fallback, i.e. have the vignette include a static/pre-generated piece (which is clearly marked as such) only if the external dependency is not available. Just a thought Henrik > > Kind regards, > > j. > > > > -- > -------- January Weiner -------------------------------------- > > [[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
