Here’s a blog post on using drat with github actions to make data deployment to drat automatic. Maybe more than you need.
Disclaimer, I’m the post author. Bryan https://chemospec.org/2021/04/11/p19/ <https://chemospec.org/2021/04/11/p19/> > On Apr 27, 2021, at 3:09 PM, Ayala Hernandez, Rafael > <r.ayal...@imperial.ac.uk> wrote: > > Dear Dirk and Berry, > > Thanks a lot for your input and for pointing me to the very nice article on > the R Journal. It seems to me that hosting the data via GitHub and > >> El 28 abr 2021, a las 0:04, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> escribió: >> >> >> ******************* >> This email originates from outside Imperial. Do not click on links and >> attachments unless you recognise the sender. >> If you trust the sender, add them to your safe senders list >> https://spam.ic.ac.uk/SpamConsole/Senders.aspx to disable email stamping for >> this address. >> ******************* >> >> On 27 April 2021 at 10:26, Ayala Hernandez, Rafael wrote: >> | I am in the process of including a large update for my package asteRisk, >> that will require the usage of large data files (amounting in total to ~100 >> MB). >> | >> | Given the CRAN package size limits of 5 MB, I am wondering what is the >> preferred solution in these cases? I have read multiple possibilities, such >> as requesting to CRAN to host a data-only package that would be updated very >> infrequently, or hosting the data in another repository and providing >> functions in the main package to retrieve the required files. >> >> In case you have not seen it yet, the R Journal article Brooke and I wrote a >> few years ago covers exactly this use case, and walks through how to cover it >> in a fairly detailed way. >> >> https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-026/index.html >> >> @article{RJ-2017-026, >> author = {G. Brooke Anderson and Dirk Eddelbuettel}, >> title = {{Hosting Data Packages via drat: A Case Study with Hurricane >> Exposure Data}}, >> year = {2017}, >> journal = {{The R Journal}}, >> doi = {10.32614/RJ-2017-026}, >> url = {https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2017-026}, >> pages = {486--497}, >> volume = {9}, >> number = {1} >> } >> >> Hope this helps, Dirk >> >> -- >> https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel