[R-pkg-devel] What influences the size of the rdb file in a package

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 29/10/2021 4:23 p.m., Gábor Csárdi wrote:
> You probably (accidentally?) put some large object into your package,
> e.g. a non-function object. But it is hard to say more without seeing
> the actual code....

Yes.  To track it down, you need to understand that an INSTALL executes 
everything in the .R files, and saves every object that was created. In 
a simple package, that's just a bunch of functions, but in more 
complicated situations, you may have created some objects in order to 
build functions, even though you don't need them:  but unless you remove 
them, it's very easy to have them included too.

Duncan Murdoch
> 
> Gabor
> 
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 10:07 PM Mosqueira Sanchez, Iago
> <iago.mosqueira using wur.nl> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I am getting warnings in some packages about the size of the R folder
>>
>> * checking installed package size ... NOTE
>>    installed size is 20.5Mb
>>    sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
>>      data   2.4Mb
>>      R     17.8Mb
>>
>> This package contains around 3300 lines of code, if the results of
>>
>> grep -v '^\s*#' *.R | wc
>>
>> are correct.
>>
>> Is this size to be expected? Is there anything I might be missinmg to
>> make it smaller?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> Iago
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