Re: [Rd] sysdata.rda vs. rda files in data directory

2013-03-27 Thread Ulrike Grömping
Dear all, for everybody's benefit, here is a brief summary of what I learnt from Uwe Ligges. There is a convincing reason against combining a data directory with a datalist file only (the way for retrieving a list of the data available without the package loaded) with a sysdata.rda file in the R

[Rd] sysdata.rda vs. rda files in data directory

2013-03-23 Thread Ulrike Grömping
Dear developeRs, my package FrF2.catlg128 holds large catalogues and is supposed to gain additional ones. All the catalogues are intended for the user. So far, the catalogues were stored in the data directory, and LazyData was "no". I understand that this is not considered wise any more (if it