On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 8:38 AM Rainer M Krug <rai...@krugs.de> wrote: > > > > On 10 Feb 2020, at 17:58, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.ga...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Maybe you have large, ignored files in the package directory? R first > creates a copy of the whole directory and only applies `.Rbuildignore` > after that. > > THANKS - you solved my question without me having to answer it. As I am using > a makefile to build the package, I can easily rename the ignored directories > before calling build. > > But the question is why are these ignored directories scanned before building > the package? They should be ignored anyway? > > Rainer
A makefile is a good idea, but I would rather move the files that are needed to a temporary directory, instead of temporarily renaming unneeded files, because if the makefile fails, then you won't restore them and your project will be in a broken state. Gabor [...] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
