On 12 March 2020 at 20:14, Ivan Krylov wrote: | On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 15:16:13 +0000 | Carsten Croonenbroeck <carsten.croonenbro...@uni-rostock.de> wrote: | >> Where a large amount of data is required (even after compression), | >> consideration should be given to a separate data-only package which | >> can be updated only rarely (since older versions of packages are | >> archived in perpetuity). | | If publishing the data separately from the code is acceptable, you | could use drat [**] to set up a repository for the data package | somewhere else, then list the data package in Suggests: and the repo in | Additional_repositories: in the DESCRIPTION of the code package, which | you could submit to CRAN.
Thanks for the pointer! And Neal just kindly edited a SO answer describing this, so I updated the list of CRAN packages doing this. [1] The best reference, though, may still be our R Journal paper on this. [2] Hth, Dirk [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36105257/how-to-make-r-package-recommend-a-package-hosted-on-github/36105343#36105343 [2] https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-026/index.html -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
