On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 06:58:56PM +0200, Uwe Ligges wrote: > Ross Boylan wrote: > >I can't tell from the docs ("Writing R Extensions" 1.9.1) exactly what > >environment the tests, examples, and vignettes that R CMD check tries to > >run are in. > > > >In particular: > >1) how do I get the package loaded? > >2) how do I access data in the data/ directory? > >3) where is the material in the other directories? (e.g., has inst/ > >material been installed? where?) > > > >Apparently (section 1.3) stuff in demo/ is not checked, which seems odd. > > > >By inspecting some other packages, it seems the answer to 1) is that the > >package is already loaded, so I don't need to say library(...). In > >particular, I don't need to figure out what lib.loc is. > > > >I have some C code as part of the package, so that (well the .so file) > >needs to be loaded too. > > Yes. You don't need library() in the the help pages' exmaples, but you > need it in tests. >
So what should I use for lib.loc? > > >2) Others seem to just say data(..), but this doesn't work for me. > >I created the data with > >save(gold, e2, q2, file="mspath/data/inputs", compress=TRUE) > >and later renamed the file to inputs.RData. (check didn't think the > >file counted without the extension). > > Indeed, the manuals tells us that saved images have to be called either > *.RData (note the capitalization) or *.rda. > > > >I have tried to access it in my test script (under tests/) with both > >load and data (e.g., data("inputs"), data("inputs.RData"), > >data(inputs)). I get > > > >>data(inputs) > > > >Warning message: > >Data set 'inputs' not found in: data(inputs) > > Works for me as "Mytests.R" in "Mypackage": > > library(Mypackage) > data(MydataInMypackage) > print(MydataInMypackage) Is this with MydataInMyPackage in the same directory as Mytests.R, or in data/. I'm attempting the latter. > > >For that matter, my assumed answer to 1) doesn't seem to be working out, > >because when I try to access one of my functions it tells me it can't > >find it. The function name is the same as the package name. > > > >Perhaps the problem is I have inferred answers from \example{}, and the > >story for tests/ is different. > > Right, see above. > > > >Although I'm currently focussed on running a script in tests/, I'd like > >to know what the story is for \examples in documentation or vignettes. > > You won't need library() in the examples ... And it's also unnecessary for vignettes? > > > >Thanks. > > > >P.S. Is there a typical way to produce the .Rout.save file used in > >tests/? What I'm doing is a slightly awkward 2-step process. > > > Running R CMD check once, looking whether the Rout looks fine (this > should be the step that takes most of the time, and R can't do it for > you), rename the file it, finished. OK, that's what I was doing. > > > Uwe Ligges Thanks. ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html