Hi,
Is there any reason why .Rbuildignore is not used before copying package
files in R CMD build?
For some of the packages I develop I have rather large directories with
miscellaneous files for testing and other purposes. They are in my
.Rbuildignore (and .gitignore) file, but that doesn't preve
On 2024-08-28 5:59 p.m., Alexey Sergushichev wrote:
Hi,
Is there any reason why .Rbuildignore is not used before copying package
files in R CMD build?
For some of the packages I develop I have rather large directories with
miscellaneous files for testing and other purposes. They are in my
.Rbui
Hi Alexey,
It's kind of gross, but if you need a local solution, you could put
your own executable `cp` script on your PATH somewhere, and have that
do something "smart" when it's invoked by R. One way to detect that
would be to check if the `R_CMD` environment variable is set. For
example:
https
> I think the reason is simplicity. The build process can add, delete or
modify files. You wouldn't want that to happen on the original source
files, so R copies the files to a temporary location to run things.
> If it applied .Rbuildignore first, then important files for the build
might not be
> It's kind of gross, but if you need a local solution, you could put
your own executable `cp` script on your PATH somewhere, and have that
do something "smart" when it's invoked by R.
Hah! Currently I opted out to using pkgbuild functions and specified
`Config/build/copy-method: link` in my DESCR
