On 19/03/2012 20:25, Sebastian P. Luque wrote:
Hi,
R CMD check PACKAGE_VERSION_tar.gz gives warning:
Files not of a type allowed in a ‘data’ directory:
‘tser1.csv.bz2’ ‘tser2.csv.bz2’
Please use e.g. ‘inst/extdata’ for non-R data files
which I didn't expect, based on section 1.1.5 (Data in packages) of the
Writing R Extensions manual:
Tables (`.tab', `.txt', or `.csv' files) can be compressed by
`gzip', `bzip2' or `xz', optionally with additional extension `.gz',
`.bz2' or `.xz'. However, such files can only be used with R 2.10.0 or
later, and so the package should have an appropriate `Depends' entry in
its DESCRIPTION file.
In this case, I have a Depends: R (>= 2.13.0), and the package was built
with R version 2.15.0 beta (2012-03-16 r58769), Platform:
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit), so I don't understand the warning.
Cheers,
Well, the extension is allowed 'optionally' to be .csv.bz2, but that
does not make it good practice and I would suggest not using it.
But that 'check' picked it up was a typo in the code 'check' used to
specify types of data() files, corrected since your build of R so I
would expect current R-devel or R-pre-release not to give the NOTE. I
am not sure whether or not that has any ramifications for users of the
package with older versions of R, but we know calling the compressed
file foo.csv would work.
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