[R-pkg-devel] R package which creates a directory in the user home dir
Hi, I'am developing a package that circumvents the R package size limitation for data sets. For this I store the data set in the internet (currently GitHub) and download if it is requested. To avoid unnecessary downloads and internet connections I create a directory in the users home directory to store the data there. However, this violates the "CRAN Repository Policy" which says - Packages should not write in the user’s home filespace (including clipboards), nor anywhere else on the file system apart from the R session’s temporary directory (or during installation in the location pointed to by TMPDIR: and such usage should be cleaned up). Do I have any chance to get the package to CRAN, if I submit it? Best Sigbert -- https://hu.berlin/sk https://hu.berlin/mmstat3 __ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
Re: [R-pkg-devel] R package which creates a directory in the user home dir
On Thu, 2019-10-17 at 14:29 +0200, Sigbert Klinke wrote: > Hi, > > I'am developing a package that circumvents the R package size > limitation > for data sets. For this I store the data set in the internet > (currently > GitHub) and download if it is requested. > > To avoid unnecessary downloads and internet connections I create a > directory in the users home directory to store the data there. > However, > this violates the "CRAN Repository Policy" which says > > - Packages should not write in the user’s home filespace (including > clipboards), nor anywhere else on the file system apart from the R > session’s temporary directory (or during installation in the > location > pointed to by TMPDIR: and such usage should be cleaned up). > > Do I have any chance to get the package to CRAN, if I submit it? To be sure, you'd need to ask the CRAN staff, but probably not. You could probably add an option that defaults to FALSE to persist the data. Then wrap that in a check. if persist=TRUE, check to see if the file exists. if it exists in the subdirectory of the working directory, then load it. otherwise create the subdirectory of the current working directory, load from the internet, and save the data locally. In this way you've had the user explicitly direct the function to save data to disk, which is (usually) OK. Regards, Brian -- Brian G. Peterson ph: +1.773.459.4973 im: bgpbraverock __ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
Re: [R-pkg-devel] R package which creates a directory in the user home dir
Quoting Sigbert Klinke : Hi, I'am developing a package that circumvents the R package size limitation for data sets. For this I store the data set in the internet (currently GitHub) and download if it is requested. To avoid unnecessary downloads and internet connections I create a directory in the users home directory to store the data there. However, this violates the "CRAN Repository Policy" which says - Packages should not write in the user’s home filespace (including clipboards), nor anywhere else on the file system apart from the R session’s temporary directory (or during installation in the location pointed to by TMPDIR: and such usage should be cleaned up). Do I have any chance to get the package to CRAN, if I submit it? Best Sigbert -- https://hu.berlin/sk https://hu.berlin/mmstat3 Hi Sigbert, there are many packages on CRAN that download data from somewhere for their users. They simply ask the user (or rather let the user specify) if and where to store the data. kind regards Enrico -- Enrico Schumann Lucerne, Switzerland http://enricoschumann.net __ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
Re: [R-pkg-devel] R package which creates a directory in the user home dir
> Sigbert Klinke > on Thu, 17 Oct 2019 14:29:54 +0200 writes: > Hi, > I'am developing a package that circumvents the R package size limitation > for data sets. For this I store the data set in the internet (currently > GitHub) and download if it is requested. > To avoid unnecessary downloads and internet connections I create a > directory in the users home directory to store the data there. However, > this violates the "CRAN Repository Policy" which says > - Packages should not write in the user’s home filespace (including > clipboards), nor anywhere else on the file system apart from the R > session’s temporary directory (or during installation in the location > pointed to by TMPDIR: and such usage should be cleaned up). > Do I have any chance to get the package to CRAN, if I submit it? > Best Sigbert > https://hu.berlin/sk > https://hu.berlin/mmstat3 I you *prompt* the user about writing, i.e., ask them explicitly if is fine and only if "yes", you write there, otherwise try to write to tempdir() then your package is fine, otherwise it is not, i.e, "not okay" according to many, even if *not* on CRAN.. Best, Martin __ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
Re: [R-pkg-devel] R package which creates a directory in the user home dir
And if the user hits "yes", the package rappdirs may be useful to get an appropriate place to save that data. Iñaki On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 at 14:45, Martin Maechler wrote: > > > Sigbert Klinke > > on Thu, 17 Oct 2019 14:29:54 +0200 writes: > > > Hi, > > I'am developing a package that circumvents the R package size limitation > > for data sets. For this I store the data set in the internet (currently > > GitHub) and download if it is requested. > > > To avoid unnecessary downloads and internet connections I create a > > directory in the users home directory to store the data there. However, > > this violates the "CRAN Repository Policy" which says > > > - Packages should not write in the user’s home filespace (including > > clipboards), nor anywhere else on the file system apart from the R > > session’s temporary directory (or during installation in the location > > pointed to by TMPDIR: and such usage should be cleaned up). > > > Do I have any chance to get the package to CRAN, if I submit it? > > > Best Sigbert > > > https://hu.berlin/sk > > https://hu.berlin/mmstat3 > > > I you *prompt* the user about writing, i.e., ask them explicitly > if is fine and only if "yes", you write there, > otherwise try to write to tempdir() then your package is fine, > otherwise it is not, i.e, > "not okay" according to many, even if *not* on CRAN.. > > Best, > Martin > > __ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel -- Iñaki Úcar __ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
Re: [R-pkg-devel] R package which creates a directory in the user home dir
Also, consider using the rappdirs package to write to a location that follows standard practice on each platform. -Original Message- From: R-package-devel On Behalf Of Martin Maechler Sent: Thursday, 17 October 2019 11:44 PM To: Sigbert Klinke Cc: r-package-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] R package which creates a directory in the user home dir > Sigbert Klinke > on Thu, 17 Oct 2019 14:29:54 +0200 writes: > Hi, > I'am developing a package that circumvents the R package size limitation > for data sets. For this I store the data set in the internet (currently > GitHub) and download if it is requested. > To avoid unnecessary downloads and internet connections I create a > directory in the users home directory to store the data there. However, > this violates the "CRAN Repository Policy" which says > - Packages should not write in the user’s home filespace (including > clipboards), nor anywhere else on the file system apart from the R > session’s temporary directory (or during installation in the location > pointed to by TMPDIR: and such usage should be cleaned up). > Do I have any chance to get the package to CRAN, if I submit it? > Best Sigbert > https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhu.berlin%2Fsk&data=02%7C01%7Chongooi%40microsoft.com%7Cb0df7ca628c34c80856d08d752ffd245%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637069131007127544&sdata=1AVL8mEcu40nIo5XsWpAMooftEGX8V4W5armhNaFsGM%3D&reserved=0 > https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhu.berlin%2Fmmstat3&data=02%7C01%7Chongooi%40microsoft.com%7Cb0df7ca628c34c80856d08d752ffd245%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637069131007127544&sdata=sUfd89zI27LMfqUps7Hfhv%2BCvreUX4ZQJhTW1%2FGkcaY%3D&reserved=0 I you *prompt* the user about writing, i.e., ask them explicitly if is fine and only if "yes", you write there, otherwise try to write to tempdir() then your package is fine, otherwise it is not, i.e, "not okay" according to many, even if *not* on CRAN.. Best, Martin __ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstat.ethz.ch%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fr-package-devel&data=02%7C01%7Chongooi%40microsoft.com%7Cb0df7ca628c34c80856d08d752ffd245%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637069131007127544&sdata=UwCk8xz15BVi1OCwKpyZ7usO4nYnT4KtCZm7bHEP9Kc%3D&reserved=0 __ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
Re: [R-pkg-devel] R package which creates a directory in the user home dir
Sigbert,
One approach you could consider is to _package_ the data in a (standard R)
package upon which you can have a Suggests: relationship using a
Additional_repositories: entry in DESCRIPTION. That is fully compliant and
compatible with the CRAN Policy, and has been done before -- in fact there is
a detailed writeup for just this case ("additional data packages") here in
the 9:1 issue of the R Journal.
https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-026/index.html
The paper details how to use the drat package to manage that repository but
it is worth stressing that drat is entirely optional -- everything can be
done the same way with base R functions.
Dirk
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[R-pkg-devel] winbuilder fails for package depending on rJava
Hi all, I'm trying to ready a package update for CRAN, but it's failing 32 bit Windows checks because of rJava: ``` * installing *source* package 'dialrjars' ... ** using staged installation ** R ** inst ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading ** help *** installing help indices ** building package indices ** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location *** arch - i386 Error: package or namespace load failed for 'dialrjars': .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'rJava', details: call: inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...) error: unable to load shared object 'd:/temp/RtmpO22QHg/RLIBS_1d954576818a2/rJava/libs/i386/rJava.dll': LoadLibrary failure: %1 ist keine zul�ssige Win32-Anwendung. Error: loading failed Execution halted *** arch - x64 ERROR: loading failed for 'i386' * removing 'd:/RCompile/CRANguest/R-devel/lib/dialrjars' ``` https://win-builder.r-project.org/KpYqdgLqaPgI/00install.out Has something changed in the winbuilder/CRAN windows testing environment recently, and if so does anyone have any suggestions for resolving this error? I've submitted this and a related package and they've passed fine in the past, but the published versions on CRAN appear to currently be failing the Windows CRAN checks with the same error: https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_dialr.html https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_dialrjars.html rJava itself appears to be passing fine: https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_rJava.html Thanks in Advance, Danny __ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
