Re: [Rd] Problem with distributing data in package.

2013-07-20 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Simon Knapp wrote: > Hi List, > > I am building a package for a client to help them create and perform > analyses against netcdf files which contain 'a temporal stack' of > grids. > > For my examples and test cases, I create an example dataset in code > (as this i

Re: [Rd] Problem with distributing data in package.

2013-07-20 Thread Simon Knapp
Hi Barry, Thanks for the response, your suggestion was going to be my 'work around'... perhaps I took the second paragraph of section 1.1.5 of R-exts.pdf the wrong way. I'd be interested in knowing why there is a difference between the data in a source package (.rda files) and windows binary pack

Re: [Rd] Problem with distributing data in package.

2013-07-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 20/07/2013 12:01, Simon Knapp wrote: Hi Barry, Thanks for the response, your suggestion was going to be my 'work around'... perhaps I took the second paragraph of section 1.1.5 of R-exts.pdf the wrong way. I'd be interested in knowing why there is a difference between the data in a source pa

Re: [Rd] Problem with distributing data in package.

2013-07-20 Thread Simon Knapp
Hi Brian, Thanks for the response. My original request contained the code that I have placed in a file in the data directory, though this had been removed in Barry's response. I have copied the original email below. While I did mention "When I build the package" in that email, I did not, however,