I use rappdirs to construct a platform appropriate consistent package download
directory. But for CRAN I believe you will need to obtain some kind of user
confirmation at least once to allow this behaviour. Best, Greg.
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> On 6 Dec 2019, at 08:43, Rainer M Krug <rai...@krugs.de> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I am writing a package which downloads files which become part of the package
> (only useful for functions in the package and independent of the working
> directory) into
>
> system.file("installedSchemes", package = "dmdScheme")
>
> (See
> https://github.com/Exp-Micro-Ecol-Hub/dmdScheme/blob/b97e7b5ef116476e065aeec1da1050eecbd6adf7/R/scheme_install.R#L71-L75
> for the function).
>
> I know that is regulated for R packages, but I can’t find it.
>
> Is this allowed for R packages? Will this be allowed for CRAN?
>
> I would prefer not to allow custom paths here, as it would complicate things.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rainer
>
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