[R-pkg-devel] vignette with third party software

2018-02-26 15:03 GMT+01:00 Dominik Leutnant <leutnant at fh-muenster.de>:

Dear all,

We'd like to submit an update of the "swmmr" package to CRAN, which interfaces the rainfall runoff model SWMM from the US environmental protection agency.
The package also includes three vignettes which demonstrate how to run the external model from the R command line.
Within the vignettes, the locally installed SWMM model is executed. Of course, the model is not available on CRAN. My question therefore is:

How can we pass the incoming checks although processing the vignettes would fail?

If the size of the Example1.inp file is reasonable, you may include it
under the inst directory and retrieve it as follows in your vignettes:

inp_file <- system.file("Example1.inp", package="swmmr")

Otherwise, you may set knitr::opts_chunk$set(eval=FALSE) in the first
chunk for each vignette, so that your code is not executed and thus it
won't fail.

Thanks in advance!
Best,
Dominik

Dominik Leutnant M.Sc.

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