You have no guarantee that the user has write access to those folders. So you might want to rethink your strategy.
ir. Thierry Onkelinx Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and Forest team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance Kliniekstraat 25 1070 Anderlecht Belgium To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. ~ John Tukey Op 4 jul. 2015 05:00 schreef "Glenn Schultz" <glennmschu...@me.com>: > Hi All, > > I am researching the criteria for submitting packages on the R website and > using Hadley's packages book as a general guide. The CRAN policy is that a > package cannot write files. My question is as follows: > > Does this apply when the package is installed only? I ask because my > package does not write any files on install. However, I have functions > that allow the user to create cusip level information to create a MBS > security (dated date, first payment date, etc.). The function then saves > the file as a binary to the appropiate data folder in the package file > directories. I use the same strategy to save mortgage prepayment model > tuning parameters. > > If the result of the function, after a package is installed, is to save a > data file in the package's subdirectories does this violate CRAN policy > against writing files? I read the policy but I am not 100% sure in this > case. > > -Glenn > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
