[Bioc-devel] purpose of "R CMD check --no-rebuild-vignettes"

[Douglas Bates]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 2:39 AM, Andreas Heider
<aheider at trm.uni-leipzig.de> wrote:
> Dear mailing list,
> the complete recreation of my vignette takes about 7 minutes. Using only "R
> CMD check" would result in a "timeout" regarding the Bioconductor
> guidelines.
> However, I can use "R CMD check --no-rebuild-vignettes" to supress the
> recreation of the vignette. So this should result in less time needed.
> But nevertheless, "R CMD check" writes the following lines:
>
> * checking running R code from vignettes ... OK
> * checking re-building of vignettes ... SKIPPED
> * checking PDF version of manual ... OK
>
> So, the R code in the vignette is executed anyway. And as I stated, it takes
> cosiderable amounts of time.
> I don't understand why the code is executed anyway, because in this case "R
> CMD check" could have built the vignette in the same time.

> Maybe someone can help me with this.

Sometimes the LaTeX version of the vignette requires special style
files.  The check that the code in the vignette can be executed
successfully is just that, another check that code that should run
does run.
> Thanks in advance,
> Andreas
>
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