Best practices for distributing/using files in learnr tutorials

[dkane]

What are best practices for distributing and using files with learnr tutorials?

For example, I have a file, test.csv, which I want to use to teach students about read_csv(). First, what is the best way to ensure that students have a copy of that file? Second, what is the best way to ensure that students can "see" that file for a specific exercise code chunk?

UPDATE: Not sure on the best answer. I decided to stick all such files in inst/www, following the discussion here. Then, I can refer to those files --- consider "test_1.csv" --- with code in the tutorial like:

cat(readLines(paste0(system.file("www/", package = "primer.tutorials"), 
                     "test_1.csv")), sep = "\n")

Can't say I like this, but it works.

The second use case is to put a copy of the file in the working directory of the current question. I do that with a setup chunk which looks like:

file.copy(paste0(system.file("www/", package = "primer.tutorials"), 
                 "test_1.csv"), ".")

Again, it works. But is it really the best way?

[evelinesurbakti]

Hi, when you open the r-code in folder A and it would be better to put the dataset in folder A as well.
why? I think before you setwd() the default setting of working directory of the dataset is in the folder where the r-code is.

or another way, making the habit of setting the working directory also recommended.