[R-pkg-devel] compact vignettes

Dirk Eddelbuettel edd @end|ng |rom deb|@n@org
Wed Jul 23 02:31:31 CEST 2025


On 23 July 2025 at 00:16, Richard M. Heiberger wrote:
| I need some help on the compacting of pdf files in the inst/doc/ directory.
| When I use the --compact-vignettes option, as in
|   R CMD build --compact-vignettes microplot
| the relevant pdf filesize drops 76 bytes.
| 
| The CRAN pretest makes it drop in size by 270 kilobytes
| 
| What incantation am I missing?

I use `--compact-vignettes=both` (encoded in wrapper script `build.r` which
is part of my `littler` package).

One of those things that maybe should be a default but aren't...

Dirk

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