On 24/10/2019 8:57 a.m., Helmut Schütz wrote:
Dear all, since we have many examples in our vignettes (rendering takes about 7 minutes) we provide them in /inst/doc Another reason is to have HTML5 instead of XHTML1.0 produced by pandoc (which contains deprecated attributes). To prevent building we have BuildVignettes: no in the DESCRIPTION Building the source, and installation from the local zip works as intended (vignettes are listed by browseVignettes(package="ourpackage"), linked in the main man-page, and all internal links are fine. However, CHECK throws a WARNING FOSS licence with BuildVignettes: false If I understand that correctly, it means that license(s) could not retrieved. In the DESCRIPTION we have License: GPL (>=2) Furthermore, all vignettes have a license section We tried adding License_is_FOSS: yes and License_restricts_use: no to the DESCRIPTION without success. Any ideas? Helmut
Writing R Extensions says that "BuildVignettes: false" should only be used in packages which do not have an open source license.
The CRAN Repository Policy says "If the package needs special treatment (for example if vignettes can only be run or re-built on the maintainer’s machine or take a very long time), say so on the submission form."
So it seems clear what to do: remove the BuildVignettes: false statement, and explain why CRAN should avoid building them in your submission message. This will likely make it take longer for the package to be handled; if that's a problem for you, you probably need to simplify the examples (or remove them).
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