Message-ID: <a29e1ed3-c151-49cc-85a5-018259579367@gmail.com>
Date: 2023-10-17T20:43:37Z
From: Duncan Murdoch
Subject: [R-pkg-devel] Suppressing long-running vignette code in CRAN submission
In-Reply-To: <86bf2be1-9fd2-43f0-85f1-db0c82c1a028@mcmaster.ca>
On 17/10/2023 4:21 p.m., John Fox wrote:
> Hello Simon,
>
> On 2023-10-17 3:51 p.m., Simon Urbanek wrote:
>> Caution: External email.
>>
>>
>> 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:
>>>> Caution: External email.
>>>> 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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