Computational Statistics

56 BASIC DATA ANALYSIS

Name Kind Content

.RData for output of save() . Alterna-

tively: .rda

The directory should contain a file

00Index with a short survey of the data

sets included.

exec directory Additional executable files, for example,

Perl- or shell scripts.

inst directory Contents are copied (recursively) to the

target directory of the installation. In par-

ticular, this directory can contain a file

CITATION, which is evaluated by the R

function citations() .

man directory Documentation in the R documentation

format (see [35], “Writing R extensions”,

available from

<http://www.cran.r-project.org/>).

Recommended name suffix: .Rd

src directory Fortran, C and