On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:44:58 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
[...] >>> 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. >> Does this mean we can still compress the files, but leave the file >> name with suffix *.csv (i.e. not adding the compression-specific >> suffix)? The 2 files I'm including in the package are a little over >> 1 Mb, and bzip2 gets them down to< 150 Kb. > Yes, that is what the help file says. If I do that, however, R CMD build builds the package adding the .gz suffix to these files (i.e. I end up with data/*.csv.gz), presumably because --resave-data is the default, which uses gzip, provided no BuildResaveData field is present in DESCRIPTION. Adding "BuildResaveData: no" to DESCRIPTION solves this. For package maintenance it might be easier to leave the uncompressed data/*.csv and add "BuildResaveData: bzip2" to DESCRIPTION, but then R CMD build generates data/*.csv.xz with R-devel (2012-03-22 r58801), so something seems wrong. Should we simply stick to doing the compression manually and adding "BuildResaveData: no" to DESCRIPTION? Thanks, -- Seb ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel