[R-pkg-devel] "no prebuilt vignette index" error

2017-08-25 Thread Daniel Kelley
QUESTION: I wonder how to address the error that I’ve quoted in the subject line? DETAILS: I am using R 3.4.1 to build the “oce” package, which helps with the analysis of oceanographic data. It’s several years old. Lately, when I submit the “oce” package to winbuilder using devtools

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Saving provenance data to the file system

2017-08-25 Thread Jenny Bryan
I can't comment on the specific intersection of your plans and CRAN's rules, but note that you might want to check out the rappdirs package (already on CRAN and imported by some other packages) as a possible helper for whatever you decide to do. https://cran.r-project.org/package=rappdirs -- Jenn

[R-pkg-devel] Saving provenance data to the file system

2017-08-25 Thread Barbara Lerner
We are working on a package that collects provenance as an R script executes, saving the provenance to the file system. In reading the rules for submitting packages to CRAN, there is this rule: > Packages should not write in the users’ home filespace, nor anywhere > else on the file system apar

Re: [R-pkg-devel] CRAN upload and prechecking confusion (Johannes Graumann)

2017-08-25 Thread Charles Geyer
You can precompute long running things in vignettes. See CRAN package mcmc for examples that do this reproducibly. -- Charles Geyer Professor, School of Statistics Resident Fellow, Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science University of Minnesota char...@stat.umn.edu __