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

[Rainer Krug]

Thinking about it - what would be the easiest way, to copy the package, excluding files in .Rbuidignore, into the temp directory?

I would like to use directly the .Rbuildignore file, to exclude the files from copying.

Any suggestions?


> On 11 Feb 2020, at 10:20, Rainer M Krug <Rainer using krugs.de> wrote:
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>> On 11 Feb 2020, at 09:54, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor using gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 8:52 AM Rainer M Krug <Rainer using krugs.de> wrote:
>>> On 11 Feb 2020, at 09:42, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor using gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 8:38 AM Rainer M Krug <Rainer using krugs.de> wrote:
>>> On 10 Feb 2020, at 17:58, Gábor Csárdi <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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>>> 
>>> A makefile is a good idea, but I would rather move the files that are
>>> needed to a temporary directory, instead of temporarily renaming
>>> unneeded files, because if the makefile fails, then you won't restore
>>> them and your project will be in a broken state.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> You are right. Having two targets (prepare build, finalise build) which move the files and put them back afterwards would be the best option (and make the build call both).
>>> 
>>> Is there a way to have an .onExit() type function in a makefile?
>> 
>> The on-exit mechanism can fail as well. It is just better not to move
>> around the files of the project I think.
> 
> True.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rainer
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>> 
>> Gabor
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