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

[Ben Bolker]

   Something like file.copy( setdiff(list.files(recursive=TRUE)),
scan(".Rbuildignore", what=character())),  to = destdir) ?

On 2020-02-11 8:50 a.m., Rainer Krug wrote:
> 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.
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> Any suggestions?
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>> 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:
>>>
>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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