2009/5/4 Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>: > > > Markus Loecher wrote: >> >> Dear fellow R-users, >> I am about to publish an HTML utility package to CRAN that expands on the >> R2HTML package and includes a few goodies such as sorted tables, easy >> automation of framed HTML reporting, etc. >> However, some of the resulting dynamic HTML pages need to access >> JavaScript >> code that should sit in a specific subdirectory of public_html. >> My more general question is hence, (i) how do I include the directory >> containing the JavaScript code in my R package and > > Yes, in directory ./inst/JavaScript for example that is copied to > ./JavaScript during installation of the package. > > >> (ii) is it possible to >> copy this directory to the user's public_html path during installation ? > > Yes, if it is a source package (not for a binary package), BUT you should > not write such code that copyies files to a directory different than the > package's directory in the library that it is installed to. Things that > install files to suprising locations are sometimes considered to be some > kind of malware. >
Also not all uses of R2HTML would be for use with a web server at all. Also you can't assume the directory is public_html even if it is on a server. ______________________________________________ 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.