Re: [Rd] data compression in a package

2017-12-29 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 29 December 2017 at 07:59, Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. wrote: | which is already taken care of)." The survival package has about 2M of .rda files and | 2.2M of vignettes so I'm still under the 5M boundary, but R CMD check nags about it. The nags are genuinely irritating, especially as they a

Re: [Rd] data compression in a package

2017-12-29 Thread Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D.
On 12/29/2017 07:34 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 29 December 2017 at 07:23, Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. wrote: | The submission guide has the following cryptic (to me) sentence: |    "Reasonable compression should be used for data (not just .rda files) " | | The survival pacakge has a fairly

Re: [Rd] data compression in a package

2017-12-29 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 29 December 2017 at 07:23, Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. wrote: | The submission guide has the following cryptic (to me) sentence: |    "Reasonable compression should be used for data (not just .rda files) " | | The survival pacakge has a fairly large number of data files --- exactly what should

[Rd] data compression in a package

2017-12-29 Thread Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D.
The submission guide has the following cryptic (to me) sentence:    "Reasonable compression should be used for data (not just .rda files) " The survival pacakge has a fairly large number of data files --- exactly what should I be doing?   xz compression? Terry T. _