[R] Where to put example files?

[Roger Bivand]

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, michael watson (IAH-C) wrote:

> I'm writing an R package which includes some text file parsing
> functions, and I want to include with my package some example files to
> be used with those functions.  My question is which directory should I
> put these example files in for the user to access?  I have tried demo,
> example, doc and sample but none seem to work or "fit".
> 

Try using a subdirectory to inst/ in the package source. For example, 
inst/shapes/sids.shp in package "maptools" can be accessed by:

system.file("shapes/sids.shp", package="maptools")[1]

See examples in the pixmap package.

Roger


> Thanks in advance
> Mick
> 
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