On 04.10.2016 01:58, Luck Buttered wrote:
Hello everyone: Inside .Rbuildignore, I put the following line: ^OutputFolder$
Then indicate that you just want to ignore files within OutputFolder. Best, Uwe Ligges
However, I notice that the extdata/OutputFolder still disappears if there are no files inside of it. (I am thinking this happens when I push changes to Github). I am trying to keep the extdata/OutputFolder present (whether or not it has files inside of it) for both github and when I submit the package. Thanks again for any input you may have! On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 8:15 AM, Luck Buttered <luckbutte...@gmail.com <mailto:luckbutte...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hello everyone: Thank you for the helpful suggestions! I moved the directory name to the .Rbuildignore file, as Johannes suggested. Uwe, thanks for bringing up that topic! Yes, I read that we cannot automatically write files to user's filespace (outside of tempdir()). So, there is nothing in our package that will automatically write to user's filespace. However, we do allow users to manually enter the suggested path when going over examples in the vignette (which is the extdata/OutputFolder). We did not think about if users cannot have write access to that folder. However, that will not render the package useless for them. Instead, they can manually enter an output folder pathway that works for them, and follow the vignette examples that way. The presence of the extdata/OutputFolder is just recommended for simplicity with following examples (and if write available for users). Thanks again! On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 2:25 AM, Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de <mailto:lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>> wrote: On 03.10.2016 08:13, Johannes Ranke wrote: Hi, You can include the .gitkeep file in .Rbuildignore. This will prevent it from being present in the package you test or submit, but git willl still see it and keep the directory. Johannes Am Montag, 3. Oktober 2016, 00:03:33 schrieb Luck Buttered: Hello everyone: I am working on a vignette for a package that outputs reports for users. As part of the vignette, users can manually run eval=FALSE code that creates example reports. These example reports that they create can be saved to an output folder within extdata (extdata/OutputFolder). Note that this is a bad idea. Your users may not have write access to that folder, e.g. for network wiede installation as the one at my department. Also, you have to ask users (por let them enter a path or file) before writing somewhere on the filespace if not tempdir(). Best, Uwe Ligges When I submit to CRAN, I will be sure that OutputFolder is empty. However, whenever I make it empty, the entire folder disappears. To combat this problem, I have placed a .gitkeep file within the OutputFolder. I *believe* the presence of the .gitkeep file works as intended (prevents the automatic removal of the OutputFolder when empty). However, upon running check(), I receive a note: *checking for hidden files and directories ... NOTE* *Found the following hidden files and directories:* * inst/extdata/OutputFiles/.gitkeep* *These were most likely included in error. See section ‘Package* *structure’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual.* Does anyone have advice on how to effectively remove this note? Otherwise, does my rationale above seem like a reasonable purpose for keeping the note? Thank you for helping me approach this! [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org <mailto:R-package-devel@r-project.org> mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel <https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel> ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org <mailto:R-package-devel@r-project.org> mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel <https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel>
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