For completeness here’s the thread I recalled https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2024-August/083610.html
Tim > On 18 May 2026, at 19:46, Tim Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Ben > > I think this was discussed recently on one of the lists (although that may be > a figment of my imagination). Either way, for info, there is more related > discussion over in https://bugs.r-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17549. > > Tim > >>> On 18 May 2026, at 19:36, Ben Bolker <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >> As currently implemented, R CMD build copies everything in the package >> directory to a working directory, then unlinks those in .Rbuildignore (see >> this comment by Jim Hester from 2018). >> >> https://github.com/r-lib/rcmdcheck/issues/90#issuecomment-435938362 >> >> If one accidentally happens :-( to create a directory with many gigabytes >> of junk in it, say from reverse-dependency-checking a widely used package, >> then the presence of that directory (even if .Rbuildignore'd) will make R >> CMD build hang as it tries to copy the contents of the directory ... >> >> I realize it's considerably more complicated to skip .Rbuildignore'd files >> in the process of copying (I don't see offhand how to do it without some >> fairly fancy unix-`find`-like tool, as opposed to a straight-up >> `file.copy(..., recursive = TRUE)`, but I wonder if there's any appetite for >> changing this behaviour? >> >> cheers >> Ben Bolker >> >> ______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
