[R-pkg-devel] compression of vignettes

[Spencer Graves]

       I encountered this or a similar problem with 
"https://github.com/sbgraves237/Ecfun/blob/master/vignettes/time2nextNuclearWeaponState.Rmd". 
I tried both "R CMD build Ecfun" and R CMD build Ecfun 
--compact-vignettes".  With both, "R CMD check Ecfun_0.2-2.tar.gz" 
included the following:


* checking installed package size ... NOTE
   installed size is  7.2Mb
   sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
     doc   6.6Mb


       Suggestions?
       Thanks,
       Spencer Graves


On 2019-11-21 11:43, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On 21 November 2019 at 16:43, Joris Meys wrote:
> | The workflow as described in the manual :
> | 
> https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html#Checking-and-building-packages
> |
> | is as follows :
> |
> | R CMD build pkg --compact-vignettes
> | R CMD check pkg_x.y.z.tar.gz --as-cran
> |
> | In a basic Travis script this can be used as:
> |
> | script:
> | - R CMD build . --compact-vignettes=gs+qpdf
> | - R CMD check *tar.gz --as-cran
> |
> | You find more information here : 
> https://towardsdatascience.com/travis-ci-for-r-advanced-guide-719cb2d9e0e5
>
> You can also call the base R helper functions directly.
>
> I like having simple command-line wrapper, so I added one to `littler` 
> which
> I can call as `compactpdf.r`. All it does (besides argument checking) is
> loop over either the given pdf files (or those found in the current
> directory) to then call
>
> tools::compactPDF(f, gs_quality="ebook")
>
> for each of them. That way you can simply compare 'before' and 'after'.
>
> Similarly, I made compacting an option to the rendering script 
> `render.r` I
> often call directly from my editor when working on markdown files.
>
> Dirk
>