I still don't have the incantation correct When I use echo $R_QPDF $R_GSCMD $GS_QUALITY R CMD build --compact-vignettes=both microplot
I get 558910 bytes When I use R_QPDF=/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/qpdf R_GSCMD=/usr/local/bin/Cellar/ghostscript/10.03.0/bin/gs GS_QUALITY=ebook echo $R_QPDF $R_GSCMD $GS_QUALITY R CMD build --compact-vignettes=both microplot I get 558950 bytes The bytecount for the package went up. Transcript: rmh@MacBook-Air-9 HH-R.package % echo $R_QPDF $R_GSCMD $GS_QUALITY echo $R_QPDF $R_GSCMD $GS_QUALITY rmh@MacBook-Air-9 HH-R.package % R CMD build --compact-vignettes=both microplot R CMD build --compact-vignettes=both microplot * checking for file ‘microplot/DESCRIPTION’ ... OK * preparing ‘microplot’: * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK * installing the package to process help pages * saving partial Rd database * creating vignettes ... OK * compacting vignettes and other PDF files * excluding invalid files Subdirectory 'R' contains invalid file names: ‘MSWord_TablePlusGraphicColumn.Rold’ ‘NEWS-complete.Rold’ ‘dvi.latexConsole.Rold’ ‘latexCheckOptions.Rold’ ‘microplot.ggplot.Rpdf’ ‘microplot.ggplot.Rreusegeom’ ‘microplot_yfactor.ggplot.Rold’ ‘msWord.microplotMatrix_1.0.39.Rold’ Subdirectory 'man' contains invalid file names: ‘MSWord.Rdold’ ‘MSWord_TablePlusGraphicColumn.Rdold’ ‘microplot.AEdotplot.Rdold’ ‘pdfMicroplot.Rdold’ ‘plot_grid.Rdold’ Subdirectory 'demo' contains invalid file names: ‘LegendrePolynomials-msWord.rold’ ‘LegendrePolynomials-msWord.rold29’ ‘boxplot-ggplot-MSWord.rold’ ‘boxplot-ggplot.rold’ ‘boxplot-ggplot2.rold’ ‘bwplot-lattice-MSWord.rold’ ‘bwplot-lattice.r31’ ‘bwplot-lattice.rold’ ‘iris.rold’ ‘latex-ggplot.rreusegeom’ * checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts * checking for empty or unneeded directories * looking to see if a ‘data/datalist’ file should be added * building ‘microplot_1.0-47.tar.gz’ rmh@MacBook-Air-9 HH-R.package % ls -alF microplot_1.0-47.tar.gz ls -alF microplot_1.0-47.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 rmh staff 558910 Jul 23 16:03 microplot_1.0-47.tar.gz rmh@MacBook-Air-9 HH-R.package %R_QPDF=/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/qpdf R_GSCMD=/usr/local/bin/Cellar/ghostscript/10.03.0/bin/gs GS_QUALITY=ebook echo $R_QPDF $R_GSCMD $GS_QUALITY R CMD build --compact-vignettes=both microplot R_QPDF=/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/qpdf rmh@MacBook-Air-9 HH-R.package % R_GSCMD=/usr/local/bin/Cellar/ghostscript/10.03.0/bin/gs rmh@MacBook-Air-9 HH-R.package % GS_QUALITY=ebook rmh@MacBook-Air-9 HH-R.package % echo $R_QPDF $R_GSCMD $GS_QUALITY /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/qpdf /usr/local/bin/Cellar/ghostscript/10.03.0/bin/gs ebook rmh@MacBook-Air-9 HH-R.package % R CMD build --compact-vignettes=both microplot * checking for file ‘microplot/DESCRIPTION’ ... OK * preparing ‘microplot’: * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK * installing the package to process help pages * saving partial Rd database * creating vignettes ... OK * compacting vignettes and other PDF files * excluding invalid files Subdirectory 'R' contains invalid file names: ‘MSWord_TablePlusGraphicColumn.Rold’ ‘NEWS-complete.Rold’ ‘dvi.latexConsole.Rold’ ‘latexCheckOptions.Rold’ ‘microplot.ggplot.Rpdf’ ‘microplot.ggplot.Rreusegeom’ ‘microplot_yfactor.ggplot.Rold’ ‘msWord.microplotMatrix_1.0.39.Rold’ Subdirectory 'man' contains invalid file names: ‘MSWord.Rdold’ ‘MSWord_TablePlusGraphicColumn.Rdold’ ‘microplot.AEdotplot.Rdold’ ‘pdfMicroplot.Rdold’ ‘plot_grid.Rdold’ Subdirectory 'demo' contains invalid file names: ‘LegendrePolynomials-msWord.rold’ ‘LegendrePolynomials-msWord.rold29’ ‘boxplot-ggplot-MSWord.rold’ ‘boxplot-ggplot.rold’ ‘boxplot-ggplot2.rold’ ‘bwplot-lattice-MSWord.rold’ ‘bwplot-lattice.r31’ ‘bwplot-lattice.rold’ ‘iris.rold’ ‘latex-ggplot.rreusegeom’ * checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts * checking for empty or unneeded directories * looking to see if a ‘data/datalist’ file should be added * building ‘microplot_1.0-47.tar.gz’ rmh@MacBook-Air-9 HH-R.package % ls -alF microplot_1.0-47.tar.gz ls -alF microplot_1.0-47.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 rmh staff 558950 Jul 23 16:04 microplot_1.0-47.tar.gz rmh@MacBook-Air-9 HH-R.package % > On Jul 22, 2025, at 20:31, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > > On 23 July 2025 at 00:16, Richard M. Heiberger wrote: > | I need some help on the compacting of pdf files in the inst/doc/ directory. > | When I use the --compact-vignettes option, as in > | R CMD build --compact-vignettes microplot > | the relevant pdf filesize drops 76 bytes. > | > | The CRAN pretest makes it drop in size by 270 kilobytes > | > | What incantation am I missing? > > I use `--compact-vignettes=both` (encoded in wrapper script `build.r` which > is part of my `littler` package). > > One of those things that maybe should be a default but aren't... > > Dirk > > -- > dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
