>>>>> "WA" == William Asquith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 13:29:24 -0500 writes:
WA> I have a function XOLD() from a nearly verbatim port of legacy
WA> FORTRAN in a package. I have remplemented this function as XNEW()
WA> using much cleaner native R and built-in functions of R. I have
WA> switched the package to the XNEW(), but for historical reasons would
WA> like to retain the XOLD() somewhere in the package directory
WA> structure. An assertion through a README or other will point to this
WA> historical function and the output from the two should be numerically
WA> equal.
WA> Placement in package/R is not an option as XOLD() no longer
WA> constitutes a true user level function, would package/inst/legacyR or
WA> something like that be suitable to the R community?
Yes, put it somewhere inside <pkg>/inst/
(and end the filename in *.R).
A user of your **installed** package will be able
to use
system.file("legacy.R", package = "<pkg")
e.g.,
as source(system.file("legacy.R", package = "<pkg"))
WA> Thanks for the guidance. . .
you're welcome.
Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
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