[Rd] vignette compilation times

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Thu Feb 19 23:47:53 CET 2009


On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Friedrich Leisch
<Friedrich.Leisch at stat.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:47:12 +0000,
>>>>>> Robin Hankin (RH) wrote:
>
>  > thanks for this clarification Uwe
>  > Could I include the r_env_cache/  directory in the package
>  > and then assume that the CRAN checks use
>
>  > Sweave(.... , driver=weaver())
>
>  > in which case the process takes about 10 seconds?
>
> That makes no sense, because then there are no checks done at all: if
> the code in your vignette does not change, weaver will not recompute
> anything, hence the cached results are used. But in that case you
> could as well include only the PDF (or the generated .tex if you like
> that better) ...
>

Unless this has changed recently,I've tried including a PDF but it does not
appear in library(help = myPackage) nor on the CRAN site on
http://cran.r-project.org/package=myPackage
while Sweave'd PDFs do.



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