Hi Ben I think this was discussed recently on one of the lists (although that may be a figment of my imagination). Either way, for info, there is more related discussion over in https://bugs.r-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17549.
Tim > On 18 May 2026, at 19:36, Ben Bolker <[email protected]> wrote: > > As currently implemented, R CMD build copies everything in the package > directory to a working directory, then unlinks those in .Rbuildignore (see > this comment by Jim Hester from 2018). > > https://github.com/r-lib/rcmdcheck/issues/90#issuecomment-435938362 > > If one accidentally happens :-( to create a directory with many gigabytes of > junk in it, say from reverse-dependency-checking a widely used package, then > the presence of that directory (even if .Rbuildignore'd) will make R CMD > build hang as it tries to copy the contents of the directory ... > > I realize it's considerably more complicated to skip .Rbuildignore'd files > in the process of copying (I don't see offhand how to do it without some > fairly fancy unix-`find`-like tool, as opposed to a straight-up > `file.copy(..., recursive = TRUE)`, but I wonder if there's any appetite for > changing this behaviour? > > cheers > Ben Bolker > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
