Thanks for your help on this topic.
In fact, one of the vignettes needs hours to run some simulations; hence I'm going to provide the pdf for CRAN.
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> * - which reminds me -- what is the correct place to list vignette dependencies? "Suggests:" ?
I now added a
%\VignetteDepends{lme4}
statement to the vignette.
Best,
Felix