R-alpha: data in contributed packages

[Friedrich Leisch]

I know, we've discussed this several times in the good old days days
of the R-testers list :-), but the problem is still unsolved.

I want to include Tibshirani's data in my port of the bootstrap
package, but we still have no way of including data in a clean way.

IMHO we should have a subdirectory of $RHOME/data for each library,
e.g.
	$RHOME/data/base
	$RHOME/data/bootstrap

Actually that's the setup we are currently using here in Vienna.

We've modified the filename script to reflect that changes (which also
allows users to have a R hierarchy with library, data, etc in
~/lib/R):


*********** original filename *********** =20

#!/bin/sh

file=3D$RHOME/$1/$2

if [ -r $file ]
then
        echo $file
else
        echo
fi



*********** our filename *********** =20

#!/bin/sh

for file in $HOME/lib/R/$1/$2 \         # user R hierarchy
            $RHOME/$1/$2 \              # standard dirs
            $RHOME/$1/[^.]*/$2;         # one level of subdirs
do
    if [ -r $file ]
    then
        echo $file
        break
    fi
done

if [ ! -r $file ]
then
    echo
fi


****************************

Any comments, ... ?

Best,
Fritz

PS: In a best of all possible worlds one should of course have some
recursive searching like in TeX :-)

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