[R-pkg-devel] License of pre-built vignettes

Dear Helmut,

Maybe you can move your vignettes (source and rendered version) to the inst
folder. I think that this makes the files available to the user without
being recompiled. Downside it that they are no longer recognised as
vignettes. Therefore I would also add a short overview vignette describing
and linking to the precompiled vignettes. Something like
browseURL(system.file("precompiled.html", package = "yourpackage"))

Best regards,

ir. Thierry Onkelinx
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Op vr 25 okt. 2019 om 01:17 schreef Helmut Sch?tz <helmut.schuetz at bebac.at>:

Dear Duncan,

Duncan Murdoch wrote on 2019-10-24 21:51:

So it seems clear what to do:  remove the BuildVignettes: false
statement, and explain why CRAN should avoid building them in your
submission message.  This will likely make it take longer for the
package to be handled; if that's a problem for you, you probably need
to simplify the examples (or remove them).

THX, I got the idea. However, if we remove BuildVignettes: false, in the
tarball the HTML5 vignettes in inst/doc are overwritten with pandoc's
XHTML1.0 (with a warning, of course). That's the opposite of what we want.

The vignettes contain code for simulations which causes the long
runtime. In examples of the man-pages we have -- much simpler ones -- in
\donttest{}. I think that one of the purposes of vignettes is to give
the user a more exhaustive description what can be done with certain
functions. The only way out would to have instead of the R-code plain
text. Runtimes close to zero but all -- rather useful -- formats lost.

We will try to keep them and start a discussion with the team.

Helmut

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