R packages: How to access csv files in data subfolder?
data-raw is for storing data alongside a short R script that will do the conversion to R data for the user, and the user will just use the data() function.[source] Alternatively, if you want the raw CSV to be user-accessible, I think you need to use the extdata folder, as documented here. Then the user can get the actual path to the file on their system, after package installation, with system.file("extdata", ..., package = "mypackage"). Then, finally, they can feed that path to read.csv() with whatever options they like.