[R-pkg-devel] Including a jar file in a package

[Barbara Lerner]

Thanks for this advice.  The Java code was developed by our project and 
is not used by any other R packages.

Barbara

> Duncan Murdoch <mailto:murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
> August 23, 2017 at 12:56 PM
>
>
> It likely depends on the circumstances.  Did you write the Java code 
> in the jar file?  If not, does any other CRAN package use the same jar 
> file?  It doesn't really make sense for both of you to package it.
>
> Assuming the jar file isn't already on CRAN, and it really is 
> necessary for your package, and your package adds something to CRAN, 
> they'll probably allow it.  You should include a comment with your 
> submission explaining why you need the exception.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
> Barbara Lerner <mailto:blerner at mtholyoke.edu>
> August 23, 2017 at 12:07 PM
> We are developing a package that makes a call out to a Java program.  
> We have placed a jar file for this program in inst/java and it works 
> nicely.  However, when we run R CMD check, it results in a NOTE:
>
> * checking installed package size ... NOTE
>   installed size is 11.0Mb
>   sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
>     java  10.8Mb
>
> Is it likely that CRAN would accept a package that includes a large 
> subdirectory like this?  If not, what is the recommended way to do 
> this?  The nice thing about our current solution is that the user of 
> our package does not need to separately install the Java program and 
> deal with Java's classpath.
>
> Thanks for the advice.
>
> Barbara
>

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