From edd at debian.org  Fri Dec 29 14:34:37 2017
From: edd at debian.org (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 07:34:37 -0600
Subject: [Rd] data compression in a package
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On 29 December 2017 at 07:23, Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. wrote:
| The submission guide has the following cryptic (to me) sentence:
|  ?? "Reasonable compression should be used for data (not just .rda files) "
| 
| The survival pacakge has a fairly large number of data files --- exactly what should I be 
| doing??? xz compression?

See help(save) and its ilk -- compression is on by default. So just sit back
and revel in how yet another task is already taken care of by R.

Dirk

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[Rd] data compression in a package
Dirk Eddelbuettel