[R] Creating datasets in packages

Sarah Goslee sarah.goslee at gmail.com
Thu Apr 30 22:17:57 CEST 2009


The key question:
>
> What am I doing wrong?

We don't know what you _did_. How did you save the data?
Did you follow the directions in the Writing R Extensions
manual? Does ls() show the dataset? etc.

You can "access the dataset from data" - do you mean
that you can load the data directly from the data directory
within your package? How?

Sarah

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Hutchinson,David [PYR]
<David.Hutchinson at ec.gc.ca> wrote:
> I am developing an R package which includes datasets. The build and
> install works correctly. However, when I access the dataset
> ("BowRiver"), I get:
>
>> data(BowRiver)
>> BowRiver
> Error: object "BowRiver" not found. However, I can access the dataset
> from
>> data
>
> Example R datasets (such as USArrests) are loaded and can be accessed by
> the dataset name:
>
>> data(USArrests)
>> USArrests
>               Murder Assault UrbanPop Rape
> Alabama          13.2     236       58 21.2
> Alaska           10.0     263       48 44.5
> Arizona           8.1     294       80 31.0
> Arkansas          8.8     190       50 19.5
> California        9.0     276       91 40.6
> ...
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Dave
>
>


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