Dear friends,

For the last several iterations of psych I have received the Note that the 
installed size is 6.7 MB with two subdirectories greater than 1 MB.

In the most recent submission to CRAN this led to an automatic rejection which 
then Uwe kindly overrode to allow the installation on CRAN.

In order to make life easier for the CRAN folk, I would like to try to avoid 
this problem in the future.

The only  way I can see to get around this note is to split the package into 2: 
 psych and psychTools where psych would require psychTools but psychTools would 
not require psych.   The presumption is that with appropriate splitting, both 
packages would meet the 1 MB suggestion.

However, this implies that loading psych still takes up just as much space as 
before (since it would also load psychTools) and so it is not clear if this is 
a benefit. It might even be detrimental to the naive user who doesn’t load them 
both.  It would be useful, perhaps, for those who use psych for the extra 
features rather than core psychometric ones.  They would just need to load 
psychTools.

I am not sure how well the splitting would work in terms of solving the problem 
and before embarking on this exercise,  I would appreciate suggestions as to 
whether it is necessary (or at least useful).

Thanks,

Bill


William Revelle            personality-project.org/revelle.html
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Department of Psychology www.wcas.northwestern.edu/psych/
Northwestern University    www.northwestern.edu/
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