[R-pkg-devel] Overcoming CRAN's 5mb vendoring requirement

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 8 May 2024 at 11:02, Josiah Parry wrote:
| CRAN has rejected this package with:
| 
| *   Size of tarball: 18099770 bytes*
| 
| *Please reudce to less than 5 MB for a CRAN package.*

Are you by chance confusing a NOTE (issued, but can be overruled) with a
WARNING (more severe, likely a must-be-addressed) or ERROR?

There are lots and lots of packages larger than 5mb -- see eg

   https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/?C=S;O=D

which has a top-5 of

   rcdklibs       19mb
   fastrmodels    15mb
   prqlr          15mb
   RFlocalfdr     14mb
   acss.data      14mb

and at least one of those is also Rust-using and hence a possible template.

Dirk

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