I think we are (I certainly am) going to need a more concrete example. As in, point us at a specific package and filename in this package that illustrates your concern. Such precision would also be expected on R-devel, so the lack of response may have been self-inflicted.
Are you aware of the system.file and file.path functions? File names that YOU enter into your package code should be referenced using these functions. I have been assuming so far that you were referring to filenames picked up by R as it builds the package, which appear to be handled just fine however they are stored though I don't know the details. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. On April 19, 2017 2:40:05 PM PDT, Philip Rinn <ri...@inventati.org> wrote: >Hi, > >On 12.04.2017 at 08:09, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > >> Someone might respond here anyway, but I think this is more of an >R-devel >> question. > >I tired R-devel before[1] with no response :(. > >> Anyway, as long as the package file after installation has >appropriate file >> names for where it is installed, what does it matter what is in the >files >> before installation? > >That's actually the point. In the installed .rd[bs] files the absolute >file paths >are still present but often[2] the referenced files don't even exist on >the >computer the packaged is installed. My approach therefore is to replace >those >absolute paths by relative[3] paths. But to do so I need to understand >where >exactly those absolute paths are injected in the files - that's why I >asked for >help in my fist mail - sorry for not being clear enough. > >Best, >Philip > > >[1] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2017-April/074016.html >[2] At least on Linux for packages installed via the distribution >packages system. >And I think this also holds for prebuild windows/mac builds from cran. >[3] Relative to teh root directory of the package source ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
