Message-ID: <86bf2be1-9fd2-43f0-85f1-db0c82c1a028@mcmaster.ca>
Date: 2023-10-17T20:21:13Z
From: John Fox
Subject: [R-pkg-devel] Suppressing long-running vignette code in CRAN submission
In-Reply-To: <4D65DAA7-BF42-4DBF-80DC-F6B7D09751F3@R-project.org>
Hello Simon,
On 2023-10-17 3:51 p.m., Simon Urbanek wrote:
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> John,
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> the short answer is it won't work (it defeats the purpose of vignettes).
Thank you for confirming that.
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> 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.
Best,
John
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> Cheers,
> Simon
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>> On 18/10/2023, at 3:02 AM, John Fox <jfox at mcmaster.ca> wrote:
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>> Hello Dirk,
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>> Thank you (and Kevin and John) for addressing my questions.
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>> 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.
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>> Best,
>> John
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>> 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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