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

[Uwe Ligges]

On 08.05.2024 17:56, Josiah Parry wrote:
> 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."


Well, the CRAN maintainer has not spotted this is abour rust code. This 
was not indicated in your mail, hence you got  direct rejection.

Best,
Uwe Ligges





> Thanks, we see:
> 
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>>     Size of tarball: 18099770 bytes
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> Please reudce to less than 5 MB for a CRAN package.
> 
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> 
> 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
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>> 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
>>
>> --
>> dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd using debian.org
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