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[R-pkg-devel] Package with JS dependency

4 messages · Jon Harmon, Michael Chirico, Wolfgang Viechtbauer +1 more

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Jon Harmon
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There are definitely packages with minified JS. I suspect this GitHub
search policy is causing the empty search: "Vendored and generated code is
excluded"

Even with "is:generated" and/or "is:vendored", I can't get a search to find
this, for example:
https://github.com/cran/cookies/blob/eb72bda92734d7537061e008191c2041dbe49dff/inst/js/js.cookie.min.js

On  Fri, 21 Feb 2025 09:06 AM Michael Chirico <michaelchirico4 at gmail.com>
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      Michael Chirico
    

    

      
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Ah, thanks for looking into it further, I was a but surprised myself.
Apologies for the misstatement & added noise.

Could be that GitHub just doesn't index the potentially huge files, I've
come across that with my r-mailing-list-archive repo.

        
On Sat, Feb 22, 2025, 8:20?AM Jon Harmon <jonthegeek at gmail.com> wrote:

        

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

        

  
  


  


      

    

    
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      Wolfgang Viechtbauer
    

    

      
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Like Duncan's rgl package, the mathjaxr package (https://cran.r-project.org/package=mathjaxr) also contains JS code (for MathJax). And one of the requirements to get the package onto CRAN was that the source package had to contain the unminified javascript files. The minification then happens during the installation process with the help of the 'js' package (using the lovely named uglify_files() function). So if you want to get the package on CRAN, I suspect you would have to go a similar route.

Best,
Wolfgang

            

      
      
      
    

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Dirk Eddelbuettel
    

    

      
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On 24 February 2025 at 22:08, Viechtbauer, Wolfgang (NP) wrote:

        
| Like Duncan's rgl package, the mathjaxr package (https://cran.r-project.org/package=mathjaxr) also contains JS code (for MathJax). And one of the requirements to get the package onto CRAN was that the source package had to contain the unminified javascript files. The minification then happens during the installation process with the help of the 'js' package (using the lovely named uglify_files() function). So if you want to get the package on CRAN, I suspect you would have to go a similar route.

It is not only CRAN who may require it but _other downstream uses_ might too:
I maintain (among other packages) rgl and mathjaxr for Debian, and Debian
requires 'un-minified' sources (for the usual reasons of being able to make
changes to open source code) so the compromise of 'un-minified in source,
possibly minified in installed package' is something that seems to work for
everybody.

Cheers, Dirk