Re: [Rd] path.package() versus system.file() for locating installed package folders

2014-02-12 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Feb 12, 2014, at 11:05 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On 12/02/2014 16:28, Marc Schwartz wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> For several years, I have used path.package() to get the path to Perl >> scripts contained within WriteXLS. >> >> I have a request to change this to using system.file(), which w

Re: [Rd] path.package() versus system.file() for locating installed package folders

2014-02-12 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 12/02/2014 16:28, Marc Schwartz wrote: Hi all, For several years, I have used path.package() to get the path to Perl scripts contained within WriteXLS. I have a request to change this to using system.file(), which would provide the ability to utilize WriteXLS functionality, without having

[Rd] path.package() versus system.file() for locating installed package folders

2014-02-12 Thread Marc Schwartz
Hi all, For several years, I have used path.package() to get the path to Perl scripts contained within WriteXLS. I have a request to change this to using system.file(), which would provide the ability to utilize WriteXLS functionality, without having to load the package, which path.package() r