[R-pkg-devel] Suppressing long-running vignette code in CRAN submission

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On 17/10/2023 4:21 p.m., John Fox wrote:

Hello Simon,

On 2023-10-17 3:51 p.m., Simon Urbanek wrote:

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John,

the short answer is it won't work (it defeats the purpose of vignettes).

Thank you for confirming that.

However, this sounds like a purely hypothetical question - CRAN 
policies allow long-running vignettes if they declared.

I assume that we'd declare the long-running vignette in our submission
note to CRAN. Maybe that's better than pre-building the HTML vignettes
in the package.

There's also the "BuildVignettes: false" field in DESCRIPTION, but its
use is discouraged, and I don't think it allows you to ask CRAN to build
some vignettes but not all.

Duncan Murdoch

Best,
?? John

Cheers,
Simon

On 18/10/2023, at 3:02 AM, John Fox <jfox at mcmaster.ca> wrote:

Hello Dirk,

Thank you (and Kevin and John) for addressing my questions.

No one directly answered my first question, however, which was 
whether the approach that I suggested would work. I guess that the 
implication is that it won't, but it would be nice to confirm that 
before I try something else, specifically using R.rsp.

Best,
John

On 2023-10-17 4:02 a.m., Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

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On 16 October 2023 at 10:42, Kevin R Coombes wrote:
| Produce a PDF file yourself, then use the "as.is" feature of the 
R.rsp
| package.
For completeness, that approach also works directly with Sweave. 
Described in
a blog post by Mark van der Loo in 2019, and used in a number of 
packages
including a few of mine.
That said, I also used the approach described by John Harrold and 
cached
results myself.
Dirk
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