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

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 17/10/2023 4:21 p.m., John Fox wrote:
> Hello Simon,
> 
> On 2023-10-17 3:51 p.m., Simon Urbanek wrote:
>> Caution: External email.
>>
>>
>> John,
>>
>> the short answer is it won't work (it defeats the purpose of vignettes).
> 
> Thank you for confirming that.
> 
>>
>> However, this sounds like a purely hypothetical question - CRAN policies allow long-running vignettes if they declared.
> 
> I assume that we'd declare the long-running vignette in our submission
> note to CRAN. Maybe that's better than pre-building the HTML vignettes
> in the package.
> 


There's also the "BuildVignettes: false" field in DESCRIPTION, but its 
use is discouraged, and I don't think it allows you to ask CRAN to build 
some vignettes but not all.

Duncan Murdoch

> Best,
>    John
> 
>>
>> 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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