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Asked: 2026-05-16T00:06:29+00:00

I’m creating an R package and I need it to include a couple of

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I’m creating an R package and I need it to include a couple of non R script files which get called by one of my functions. I need these script files to be distributed with the package, naturally. So that leaves me with two questions:

  1. a) In which directory of the package
    tree should I place these files? b) Is that location mandatory or just convention?
  2. Do I need to change any other
    settings or configurations or will
    they just get copied to the
    directory mentioned in #1 and then I
    can figure out the path using
    system.file()?

I’ve tried to find the answer in the Writing R Extensions document, but it didn’t jump out at me. And, of course, I didn’t read the whole thing. Am I being too honest here?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I think you want either exec/ at the top-level (even though that is labeled ‘still experimental, or subdirectory of inst as everything in inst/ gets copied verbatim into the package.

    A quick example from the packages I have expanded in source is gdata which has inst/perl, inst/xls and inst/bin. These you could then call from R itself by computing the path of the installed package using system.file().

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