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

[Josiah Parry]

That's a good point! My apologies for not making that abundantly clear.

Regardless, I think it is a fair ask to not submit massive tarballs of
dependencies.
Clarifying how we might be able to store the dependencies *outside *of CRAN
would be good to figure out.
This would help packages like polars be able to exist on CRAN.

On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 4:06 PM Uwe Ligges <ligges using statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
wrote:

>
>
> 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:
> >
> >
> >>     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
> >>
> >> --
> >> dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd using debian.org
> >>
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