[Rd] Package size NOTE in R CMD check

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 29/10/2013 00:19, Gábor Csárdi wrote:
> How does one "fix" this:
>
> R CMD check --as-cran --timings igraph_0.6.5.999-54.tar.gz
>
>
> ...
>
> * checking installed package size ... NOTE
>    installed size is  5.9Mb
>    sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
>      libs   4.0Mb
>
> ...
>
> Are maintainers expected to break up the package in this case?

No.

> I can see that the NOTE is useful to avoid garbage in the package, but
> since the libs directory is created by R CMD INSTALL, it is relatively hard
> to put garbage there.

Actually people do manage to get garbage in their .so files.

> Not a critical issue, but it would be nice to have a clean check results
> page.

'Clean'?  According to whom?

>
> Best,
> Gabor
>
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