From csardi.gabor at gmail.com  Mon Aug  4 18:23:16 2014
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Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 12:23:16 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Preferred way to include internal data in package?
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If you want to keep it as text, then you can just put it in the code:

mydata <-
'"","mpg","cyl","disp","hp","drat","wt","qsec","vs","am","gear","carb"
"Mazda RX4",21,6,160,110,3.9,2.62,16.46,0,1,4,4
"Mazda RX4 Wag",21,6,160,110,3.9,2.875,17.02,0,1,4,4
"Datsun 710",22.8,4,108,93,3.85,2.32,18.61,1,1,4,1
'

and then you can read from it via text connections:

read.csv(textConnection(mydata))

Gabor

On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Keirstead, James E
<j.keirstead at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
> I saw that, but actually I was wondering if there was a more general method.  I?d like to use plain text files if I can, instead of Rda files, since they?re easier to maintain (and it?s a small file).
>
> On 4 Aug 2014, at 16:30, Jeroen Ooms <jeroen.ooms at stat.ucla.edu> wrote:
>
>>> I?m developing a package and would like to include some data sets for internal use only, e.g. configuration parameters for functions.  What is the preferred way of doing this?  If I put them in data/, then R CMD check asks me to document them but I?d prefer it if they floated beneath the surface, without the users awareness.
>>
>> Perhaps in sysdata.rda. See "Writing R Extensions".
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