I added a new data file, NLSY.RData, to a package that uses LazyData: Yes It passed R CRAN check and R CMD install worked w/o significant complaints.
* installing to library 'C:/R/R-2.15.2/library' * installing *source* package 'heplots' ... ** R ** data ** moving datasets to lazyload DB ** demo ** inst ** preparing package for lazy loading Warning: package 'nnet' was built under R version 2.15.3 ** help ... Yet, when I try to use it, I get something incomprehensible: > library(heplots) > str(NLSY) Error in str(NLSY) : internal error -3 in R_decompress1 In addition: Warning message: In str(NLSY) : restarting interrupted promise evaluation > But it works if I load directly from the file I imported into the package: > load("NLSY.RData") > str(NLSY) 'data.frame': 243 obs. of 6 variables: $ math : num 50 28.6 50 32.1 21.4 ... $ read : num 45.2 28.6 53.6 34.5 22.6 ... $ antisoc : int 4 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 1 4 ... $ hyperact: int 3 0 2 2 2 0 1 4 3 5 ... $ income : num 52.52 42.6 50 6.08 7.41 ... $ educ : int 14 12 12 12 14 12 12 12 12 9 ... What could cause this? -- Michael Friendly Email: friendly AT yorku DOT ca Professor, Psychology Dept. & Chair, Quantitative Methods York University Voice: 416 736-2100 x66249 Fax: 416 736-5814 4700 Keele Street Web: http://www.datavis.ca Toronto, ONT M3J 1P3 CANADA ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.