Vignettes that require locally stored data

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Not sure whether this is applicable in your situation, but I got around the issue of external data in vignette by downloading a file from network location to a tempfile() at build time.

Obviously works only for small files (tens of kb in my case), but seems to be OK with CRAN.

Taken from vignette from package RCzechia.

GET("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jlacko/RCzechia/master/data-raw/zvcr034.xls", 
    write_disk(tf <- tempfile(fileext = ".xls")))
## Response [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jlacko/RCzechia/master/data-raw/zvcr034.xls]
##   Date: 2019-01-03 21:14
##   Status: 200
##   Content-Type: application/octet-stream
##   Size: 44.5 kB
## <ON DISK>  /tmp/Rtmp7QWxv8/file322b22dec355.xls

src <- read_excel(tf, range = "Data!B5:C97") # read in with original column names