Re: [R] system.file(...) self-referencing the containing package

On 04/12/2015 11:28 AM, Murat Tasan wrote: Perfect, thanks! (Any idea if/where this is documented? I checked through the "Writing R Extensions" doc and couldn't find any mention of it.) It is mentioned in ?getPackageName: " (Currently, the name is stored as the object |.packageName| but don't

Re: [R] system.file(...) self-referencing the containing package

Perfect, thanks! (Any idea if/where this is documented? I checked through the "Writing R Extensions" doc and couldn't find any mention of it.) Thanks much again, -Murat On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 6:42 PM, William Dunlap wrote: > Every package has in it, after it is installed, a character object >

Re: [R] system.file(...) self-referencing the containing package

Every package has in it, after it is installed, a character object called ".packageName" containing its name. It is not exported from the package. Functions in your package can refer to it as just .packageName. Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Murat T

[R] system.file(...) self-referencing the containing package

In a package I'm writing, I'm placing all SQL code here: /inst/sql/ And so when referring to these blocks of code from the package's R code, I do something like so: system.file("sql", "my_example_file.sql", package = "ThisPackage", mustWork = TRUE) But, referring to the package itself with the s