[R-pkg-devel] Suppressing long-running vignette code in CRAN submission

[Simon Urbanek]

John,

the short answer is it won't work (it defeats the purpose of vignettes).

However, this sounds like a purely hypothetical question - CRAN policies allow long-running vignettes if they declared.

Cheers,
Simon


> On 18/10/2023, at 3:02 AM, John Fox <jfox using mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> 
> Hello Dirk,
> 
> Thank you (and Kevin and John) for addressing my questions.
> 
> No one directly answered my first question, however, which was whether the approach that I suggested would work. I guess that the implication is that it won't, but it would be nice to confirm that before I try something else, specifically using R.rsp.
> 
> Best,
> John
> 
> On 2023-10-17 4:02 a.m., Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
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>> On 16 October 2023 at 10:42, Kevin R Coombes wrote:
>> | Produce a PDF file yourself, then use the "as.is" feature of the R.rsp
>> | package.
>> For completeness, that approach also works directly with Sweave. Described in
>> a blog post by Mark van der Loo in 2019, and used in a number of packages
>> including a few of mine.
>> That said, I also used the approach described by John Harrold and cached
>> results myself.
>> Dirk
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