Re: [R-pkg-devel] R package which creates a directory in the user home dir

2019-10-17 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
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

Re: [R-pkg-devel] R package which creates a directory in the user home dir

2019-10-17 Thread Hong Ooi via R-package-devel
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 d

Re: [R-pkg-devel] R package which creates a directory in the user home dir

2019-10-17 Thread Iñaki Ucar
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

Re: [R-pkg-devel] R package which creates a directory in the user home dir

2019-10-17 Thread Martin Maechler
> 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. >

Re: [R-pkg-devel] R package which creates a directory in the user home dir

2019-10-17 Thread Enrico Schumann
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

Re: [R-pkg-devel] R package which creates a directory in the user home dir

2019-10-17 Thread Brian G. Peterson
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

[R-pkg-devel] R package which creates a directory in the user home dir

2019-10-17 Thread 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