> It's kind of gross, but if you need a local solution, you could put your own executable `cp` script on your PATH somewhere, and have that do something "smart" when it's invoked by R.
Hah! Currently I opted out to using pkgbuild functions and specified `Config/build/copy-method: link` in my DESCRIPTION file ( https://pkgbuild.r-lib.org/reference/build.html). It's also a bit weird, but at least easy to do now. > For posterity, this was filed some time ago on R's bug tracker at: https://bugs.r-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17549 Thanks for the link! -- ALexey On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 5:13 PM Kevin Ushey <kevinus...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Alexey, > > It's kind of gross, but if you need a local solution, you could put > your own executable `cp` script on your PATH somewhere, and have that > do something "smart" when it's invoked by R. One way to detect that > would be to check if the `R_CMD` environment variable is set. For > example: > > https://gist.github.com/kevinushey/2351194ba540627831fa2d58073c097a > > For posterity, this was filed some time ago on R's bug tracker at: > > https://bugs.r-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17549 > > Best, > Kevin > > > On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 3:00 PM Alexey Sergushichev <alserg...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Is there any reason why .Rbuildignore is not used before copying package > > files in R CMD build? > > > > For some of the packages I develop I have rather large directories with > > miscellaneous files for testing and other purposes. They are in my > > .Rbuildignore (and .gitignore) file, but that doesn't prevent R CMD build > > from trying to copy them on the build process. Having them copied either > > breaks the build completely because /tmp directory gets out of space, or > > just slows it down a lot. So I wonder if there is a specific reason for > > this behavior and whether it could be change or controlled by some > > parameter. > > > > There is some discussion in the context of pkgbuild package: > > https://github.com/r-lib/pkgbuild/issues/59 It provides a hackish > > workaround for that, which also does not work on Windows. > > > > Best, > > Alexey > > > > [[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
