[R-pkg-devel] A note from CRAN package check

[Yicheng Yang]

Dear Uwe and Duncan,

Thanks a lot for your patient explanations. Because this problem is not an
urgent error now, we will try to minimize the libs in our package regarding
your suggestions in the next updates for other reasons. If we still can not
meet this requirement of package size in the next update, we may try to
explain to the CRAN team why we actually need this space as you suggested.
Have a nice day.

Best regards,
Yicheng Yang


On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 4:34 PM Uwe Ligges <ligges using statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
wrote:

> Indeed, in this case, the CRAN team will let is pass anyway.
>
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
>
> On 28.09.2020 18:41, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> > On 28/09/2020 11:10 a.m., Yicheng Yang wrote:
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> I notice that there is a note from CRAN package check results for our
> >> package as follows:
> >>
> >> Version: 1.4.1
> >> Check: installed package size
> >> Result: NOTE
> >>       installed size is 5.3Mb
> >>       sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
> >>       libs 5.2Mb
> >>
> >> The link to our package is here:
> >> https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/FHDI/index.html
> >>
> >> So I know the problem is that our package exceeds the maximum size of
> >> 5MB.
> >> But I don't understand where we can trim our package to meet
> >> this requirement. We can not modify the source codes (C++ file and R
> >> files)
> >> because we may lose some functionalities of the package. Do we have to
> >> trim
> >> R documents? Any suggestions?
> >
> > Reducing documents isn't going to be enough:  most of the problem is in
> > libs.
> >
> > You should investigate whether the libs you need are provided by other
> > packages, or (if you wrote them yourself), whether it's really true that
> > you can't shrink them.
> >
> > You could consider splitting your package into two packages, if there
> > are several libs.
> >
> > You could try to explain to CRAN why you need to use all that space.
> > There are packages on CRAN that exceed the 5Mb limit.
> >
> > Finally, you could choose to distribute your package in some other way
> > besides CRAN.
> >
> > Duncan Murdoch
> >
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