Paul Johnson wrote: ...
We used the fine foreign library to bring in an SPSS dataset that was about 9 megabytes and I can squeeze it into a much smaller R object using compression with...
save(ndat, file="NatAnnES2000.rda", compress=T).
how do people put in the meta information that appears in the right side of the data() output, as in:
Data sets in package '.':
NatAnnES2000 Data sets in package 'base':
Formaldehyde Determination of Formaldehyde HairEyeColor Hair and Eye Color of Statistics Students ...
The meta information is from the documentation, such as help(Formaldehyde). prompt(NatAnnES2000) will create a template .Rd file in R's working directory for the data frame (their doc standards are slightly different to functions). Fill in the blanks, and copy to the man/ subdirectory of your package.
Are there other attributes that I should specify if I want to package an .rda file for other users?
Just documenting it works for me. Rcmd CHECK or R CMD CHECK will grumble if there's something you've forgotten to document.
An rda file created in this way will translate across platforms, won't it?
Not sure about the compression; otherwise, yes.
Cheers
Jason -- Indigo Industrial Controls Ltd. http://www.indigoindustrial.co.nz 64-21-343-545 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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