[R-pkg-devel] [EXTERNAL] R CMD build hanging for some but not all packages

[Rainer M Krug]

Yes - I would suggest that this would be a useful change. As the files in .Rbuildignore are ignored anyway during build. So the ignoring could be done at the copying stage and not during the building stage?

Rainer


> On 11 Feb 2020, at 13:20, Hong Ooi <hongooi using microsoft.com> wrote:
> 
> They are scanned probably because R CMD build does something like cp * to copy everything to a temp folder first up, before processing it. An argument could be made that it should manually loop through all files and dirs, checking each against .Rbuildignore before copying.
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> From: Rainer M Krug <Rainer using krugs.de> 
> Sent: Tuesday, 11 February 2020 7:38 PM
> To: Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor using gmail.com>
> Cc: Hong Ooi <hongooi using microsoft.com>; r-package-devel using r-project.org
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [R-pkg-devel] R CMD build hanging for some but not all packages
> 
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> On 10 Feb 2020, at 17:58, Gábor Csárdi <mailto:csardi.gabor using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Maybe you have large, ignored files in the package directory? R first
> creates a copy of the whole directory and only applies `.Rbuildignore`
> after that.
> 
> 
> 
> THANKS - you solved my question without me having to answer it. As I am using a makefile to build the package, I can easily rename the ignored directories before calling build.
> 
> But the question is why are these ignored directories scanned before building the package? They should be ignored anyway?
> 
> Rainer
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> Gabor
> 
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 4:54 PM Hong Ooi via R-package-devel
> <mailto:r-package-devel using r-project.org> wrote:
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> 
> Actually, cancel that: it finished successfully, but took 3 minutes to prepare the package:
> 
> r$> devtools::build()
> v  checking for file 'C:\Users\hongo\Documents\GitHub\AzureStor/DESCRIPTION'
> -  preparing 'AzureStor': (3m 4s)
> v  checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ...
> -  installing the package to build vignettes
> v  creating vignettes (6.5s)
> -  checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts (13.8s)
> -  checking for empty or unneeded directories
> -  building 'AzureStor_3.1.0.9000.tar.gz'
> 
> This is really weird, I'm used to the package prep step taking 10 seconds at most.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: R-package-devel <mailto:r-package-devel-bounces using r-project.org> On Behalf Of Hong Ooi via R-package-devel
> Sent: Tuesday, 11 February 2020 3:50 AM
> To: mailto:r-package-devel using r-project.org
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] [R-pkg-devel] R CMD build hanging for some but not all packages
> 
> This is with R 3.6.2 on Windows 10 Pro 1909.
> 
> In the last couple of weeks, devtools::build() and devtools::check() have started hanging on some, but not all, of my packages. After some poking around, I discovered that it's actually R CMD build that is having problems, right after the "checking for file 'DESCRIPTION'" step.
> 
> A reproducible example can be found by cloning my AzureStor package: https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FAzure%2FAzureStor&data=02%7C01%7Chongooi%40microsoft.com%7C7962d328eb984556a2e708d7aecdc0db%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637170071036915332&sdata=cmY0VPEiEgcuhI%2B4wIT8iIimQhq7751IJ0KHdsPaMtg%3D&reserved=0 If you run "R CMD build ." in the package directory, it should hang. This is a relatively simple package that doesn't require compilation, although it does import some commonly-used packages like httr, curl, jsonlite and xml2.
> 
> As far as I can tell, R on Ubuntu works fine. What's going on?
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