[R-pkg-devel] R CMD build --resave-data not working
On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 12:57:00 -0800
Jonathan Callahan <jonathan at mazamascience.com> wrote:
I am building a package using R 4.0.4 on OS X 10.15.7.
In a terminal I type:
R CMD build --resave-data AirSensor
Then, I check with:
R CMD check --as-cran AirSensor_1.0.8.tar.gz
Everything is fine until I see:
* checking data for ASCII and uncompressed saves ... WARNING
Note: significantly better compression could be obtained
by using R CMD build --resave-data
old_size new_size compress
example_pas.rda 1.6Mb 1.1Mb xz
example_pas_raw.rda 114Kb 86Kb xz
example_pat.rda 965Kb 444Kb xz
example_pat_failure_A.rda 527Kb 259Kb xz
example_pat_failure_B.rda 411Kb 198Kb xz
example_sensor_scaqmd.rda 108Kb 76Kb xz
I get the same WARNING if I submit to win-builder.R-project.org.
I've built many packages in the past and am currently stumped as to
what might be happening.
I had the same problem, and asked about it some time back (c. 4 March) and was informed by Sebastian Meyer that:
... in R 4.0.0-4.0.4 the --resave-data option of R CMD build was ineffective for packages using LazyData. This bug has recently been fixed in R-devel (c79573) and I think the fix should also be ported to R-patched and appear in the NEWS.
A temporary workaround (again, thanks to Sebastian Meyer) is to run
tools::resaveRdaFiles()
on your data directory prior to building.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
Honorary Research Fellow Department of Statistics University of Auckland Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276