[Bioc-devel] Package size note

[Kenneth Condon]

Hi Lori,


Thanks for the reply. The actual tar.gz built by R CMD build is only 3Mb so
maybe I should ignore the note and submit? The note may actually be
referring to large .git objects in the git history - not sure.

Regards,
Kenneth

On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 12:15 PM, Shepherd, Lori <
Lori.Shepherd at roswellpark.org> wrote:

>
> Please review the package guidelines -
>
>
> http://bioconductor.org/developers/package-guidelines/
>
>
> Generally, Bioconductor will insist that the R CMD built package tar.gz be
> less than 4MB for software packages (There are some exceptions for data
> experiment or annotation packages).
>
>
> If this is a software packages,  there are a few options
>
>
> With large data files:
>
> 1.  Reduce the size of the data.  A full data set is often not needed to
> display the functionality and utility of a package.  A reduced smaller
> subset of data is recommended
>
> 2.  See if there is already existing data available in one of the data
> experiment packages or experimenthub that can be used instead of providing
> new data.
>
> 3. separate out the data files into a separate associate data
> experiment package or use the experimenthub to store data.
>
>
>
> Are you generating or providing a lot of static image files for the
> vignette?  There might also be some opportunity to reduce the size but have
> images generated automatically if this is the case.
>
>
>
>
>
> Lori Shepherd
>
> Bioconductor Core Team
>
> Roswell Park Cancer Institute
>
> Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
>
> Elm & Carlton Streets
>
> Buffalo, New York 14263
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> *From:* Bioc-devel <bioc-devel-bounces at r-project.org> on behalf of
> Kenneth Condon <roonysgalbi at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Saturday, May 12, 2018 6:23:02 PM
> *To:* bioc-devel
> *Subject:* [Bioc-devel] Package size note
>
> Hi all,
>
> I almost have a clean R CMD check.
>
> R CMD check results0 errors | 0 warnings | 1 note checking installed
> package size ... NOTE
>   installed size is  6.1Mb
>   sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
>     data   3.0Mb
>     doc    2.9Mb
>
>
> Firstly, do I need to get this below 5Mb?
>
> Secondly, I don't have a sub-directory called 'doc' - what is this?
>
> Regards,
> Kenneth
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