[R] how to save an updated dataset

[Steve Lianoglou]

Hi,

See: ?system.file

-steve

On Sep 2, 2009, at 11:39 AM, jbryer wrote:

>
> I too am looking to do the same thing. Anyone have any insight as to  
> this can
> be done?
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
>
>
>
> Chris Stubben wrote:
>>
>> I wrote a package which includes a number of genome sequencing  
>> project
>> statistics on the web like http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/lproks.cgi 
>> .
>> I included some generic functions to summarize, plot, and update the
>> tables with the most recent version
>>
>> data(lproks)
>> update(lproks)
>> [1] "lproks successfully updated, 7 new genomes added"
>>
>> I usually save the dataset back to my package data directory...
>>
>> save(lproks, file="/path/to/genomes/data/lproks.rda")
>>
>> but I may one day put the package on CRAN (or BioConductor), so now  
>> I need
>> to know where the package/data directory is located, if the user has
>> permission to save to that directory, and probably some other
>> complications I'm missing.  Any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chris Stubben
>>
>>
>
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