[R-pkg-devel] False positive antivirus reports on package vignettes

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Something that had happened to the Rcpp package in the past (but seemingly
went away on its own ?) is now apparently hitting package RcppArmadillo.

I received private email from the CRAN maintainers reporting, without
offering a fix as there seems to be none, that one of the two pdf vignettes
(which I happen to create as a shallow Rnw -> pdf wrapper around a pre-made
pdf, here that inner pdf had not changed in five years, sigh ...)  now upsets
one of these (idiotic, but hey, I am sure that at least they are very
expensive) anti-virus checkers.

Has anybody figured out a workaround?  I see withdrawing the pdf vignette as
(simple but bad) route. Or should I just change the (internal, binary) pdf
payload of the file (hey, one can always update the .bib to newer versions of
the cited packages) and hope for the best?  Any other route?

Help or tips would be appreciated.

Best, Dirk

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