[R-pkg-devel] CRAN checks for release of a package with new vignette engine

[Christophe Dervieux]

Hi,

yes I have defined in DESCRIPTION

    VignetteBuilder:
        quarto

and running `tools:::loadVignetteBuilder` on the package source
directory reads it correctly.

    > tools:::loadVignetteBuilder(".")
    [1] "quarto" "utils"

Best regards,

Christophe


On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 4:40 PM Uwe Ligges
<ligges using statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
>
> So you have defined
>
>
>    VignetteBuilder: quarto
>
> ??
>
> Best,
> Uwe
>
> On 26.02.2024 21:28, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 5:50 PM Christophe Dervieux <cderv using posit.co> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am trying to release a new version of the quarto R package. This new
> >> version is adding support for a new vignette engine that will use quarto
> >> CLI (https://quarto.org) when available. The vignettes inside the package
> >> itself are '.qmd' files built with quarto.
> >>
> >> While developing the feature, I noticed that R CMD check will query for
> >> vignette engines information, and it will find engine in already installed
> >> package (with `tools:::vignetteEngine`). So a package adding a new engine,
> >> and using this engine for its vignette only works when the package is
> >> installed before check.
> >
> >
> > This looks similar to https://bugs.r-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18191
> >
> > Based on what I can see from the public cran incoming files [1,2], I
> > suspect the Debian check is loading the CRAN version of quarto (1.3),
> > rather than the one being checked (1.4), to test vignettes. As a
> > result it does not recognize the new qmd type vignettes introduced in
> > this version.
> >
> > If this is indeed the case, the problem will resolve itself once the
> > submission is approved.
> >
> >   [1] https://cran.r-project.org/incoming/archive/quarto_1.4.tar.gz
> >   [2] https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/quarto_1.4_20240221_175256/
> >
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