On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 15:16:13 +0000 Carsten Croonenbroeck <carsten.croonenbro...@uni-rostock.de> wrote:
> I would like to know what's the maximum size and if there's a way > around that limit. Here's what CRAN policy [*] says about that: >> As a general rule, neither data nor documentation should exceed 5MB >> (which covers several books). A CRAN package is not an appropriate >> way to distribute course notes, and authors will be asked to trim >> their documentation to a maximum of 5MB. (According to src/library/tools/R/check.R, 5MB seems to be the limit on installed size, not compressed tarball size.) >> Where a large amount of data is required (even after compression), >> consideration should be given to a separate data-only package which >> can be updated only rarely (since older versions of packages are >> archived in perpetuity). If publishing the data separately from the code is acceptable, you could use drat [**] to set up a repository for the data package somewhere else, then list the data package in Suggests: and the repo in Additional_repositories: in the DESCRIPTION of the code package, which you could submit to CRAN. -- Best regards, Ivan [*] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html [**] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/drat/vignettes/DratForPackageAuthors.html ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
