On 23/08/2017 12:07 PM, Barbara Lerner wrote:
We are developing a package that makes a call out to a Java program. We have placed a jar file for this program in inst/java and it works nicely. However, when we run R CMD check, it results in a NOTE:* checking installed package size ... NOTE installed size is 11.0Mb sub-directories of 1Mb or more: java 10.8Mb Is it likely that CRAN would accept a package that includes a large subdirectory like this? If not, what is the recommended way to do this? The nice thing about our current solution is that the user of our package does not need to separately install the Java program and deal with Java's classpath. Thanks for the advice. Barbara
It likely depends on the circumstances. Did you write the Java code in the jar file? If not, does any other CRAN package use the same jar file? It doesn't really make sense for both of you to package it.
Assuming the jar file isn't already on CRAN, and it really is necessary for your package, and your package adds something to CRAN, they'll probably allow it. You should include a comment with your submission explaining why you need the exception.
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