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

[Josiah Parry]

Thank you, Dirk. This was a direct email from a CRAN member and not part of
the automatic checks. The whole email is below. I think the intent of the
message is "please resubmit."

Thanks, we see:


>    Size of tarball: 18099770 bytes



Please reudce to less than 5 MB for a CRAN package.



Best,


Yes, prqlr is a great Rust-based package! My other Rust based packages that
are on CRAN are based, in part on prqlr.


On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 11:51 AM Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd using debian.org> wrote:

>
> 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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