On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:40:46PM +0200, Søren Hauberg wrote:
> tor, 23 07 2009 kl. 12:32 +0200, skrev Thomas Weber:
> > the statistics package contains a few data files in a test/ directory.
> > Shouldn't these files be part of the tarball, i.e. moved into inst/ ?
> > Without them, tests for e.g. caseread.m fail.
>
> I think we should have some way of allowing data to be shipped along
> with packages. I would like to distribute a few images with the 'image'
> package that I could use in demos. Right now I'm using synthetic images,
> which is really boring.
>
> Perhaps packages should be allowed to have a 'data' directory along with
> 'inst' and 'doc'? I think this would be better than storing both code
> and data in the same directory.
Keep in mind that the code must be able to find the files. So, if you
want a separate directory, I'd prefer a sub-directory of inst/.
Thomas
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