> Is there a way to include the compiled version of a vignette in the doc directory but mark it to NOT be rerun by CRAN?
Some developers "precompute" their vignettes so CRAN has nothing left to run: https://ropensci.org/blog/2019/12/08/precompute-vignettes/ > Beth Atkinson and I are splitting out many of the vignettes from the survival package into a separate package survivalVignettes. An alternative some authors use is to temporarily use a special `.Rbuildignore` file to omit large vignettes when building the CRAN package but don't use that file for the normal development version (so that all the vignettes are available in the `{pkgdown}` website and for users who install using alternative channels like `remotes::install_github()`). Trevor On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 8:44 AM Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. via R-devel < r-devel@r-project.org> wrote: > Is there a way to include the compiled version of a vignette in the doc > directory but mark > it to NOT be rerun by CRAN? I think I remember that this is possible, > but have forgotton > how. (It might even be a false memory.) > > Terry T. > > Background: Beth Atkinson and I are splitting out many of the vignettes > from the survival > package into a separate package survivalVignettes. There are a few reasons > > 1. Some vignettes use packages outside of the base + recommended set; > psueodovalues for > instance are normally used as input to a subsequent GEE model. Since > survival is itself > a recommended package, it can't legally host the pseudo.Rnw vignette. > 2. The set of vignettes for survival is large, and likely to get > larger. It makes > sense to slim down the size of the package itself. > 3. It allows us to use Rmd. (Again, survival can't use anything outside > of base + > recommended). > 4. We have a couple of 'optional' vignettes that talk about edge cases, > useful to some > people but not worth the size cost of cluttering up the main package. > > The current submission fails due to one vignette in group 4 which takes a > looong time to > run. This vignette in particular is talking about compute time, and > illustrates a cases > where an O(n^2) case arises. As sentence that warns the use "of you do > this it will take > hours to run" is a perfect case for a pdf that should not be recreated by > R CMD check. > > -- > Terry M Therneau, PhD > Department of Quantitative Health Sciences > Mayo Clinic > thern...@mayo.edu > > "TERR-ree THUR-noh" > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
