[R-pkg-devel] .bib file in vignette not found during R CMD check

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 01/03/2017 2:17 AM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 2:47 PM, Duncan Murdoch
> <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 28/02/2017 5:17 PM, Patrick Schratz wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks Duncan, that was the problem! Although the Rbuildignore entry
>>> pointed to the main dir
>>
>>
>> No, it contains patterns, not paths, and is matched "case-insensitively
>> against the file and directory names relative to the top-level package
>> source directory".  Put ^ at the beginning if you want to refer to the main
>> dir.
>>
>> Hadley, reporting what gets omitted might be a good suggestion, but it might
>> report too much in a package with compiled code (the .o files will generally
>> be omitted; rgl has 51 of those in src...).
>
> I like this idea.  It could be done such that R CMD build lists the
> files omitted based solely on the content of .Rbuildignore, which I
> assume is also what Hadley meant.  This way *.o files wouldn't be
> listed since they're omitted by the built-in rules of R CMD build
> itself.

That makes sense.  Want to submit a patch?

Duncan Murdoch