Dear Ben,
On 2020-10-07 5:26 p.m., Ben Bolker wrote:
I hope so too. The (annoying) workaround is to compact the vignette
yourself (using qpdf directly or using tools::compactPDF), then use
no-build-vignettes. The problem there is whatever's supposed to happen
with building vignette indices. The uuuuugly workaround, I guess, is to
build the tarball, compact the vignettes oneself, then *replace* them in
the tarball. (Obviously I can automate that, but it seems as though it
would be unnecessary if I knew what was going on ...)
I've used both of these workarounds and agree that it would be nice to
avoid them. After all, what is the --compact-vignettes argument for?
Best,
John
cheers
Ben
On 10/7/20 4:10 PM, John Fox wrote:
Dear Ben,
I was hoping that someone would pick up on this problem, because I've
experienced the same issue of --compact-vignettes apparently ignored,
e.g., with the Rcmdr package under R 4.0.2 on both macOS and Windows.
Best,
John
John Fox, Professor Emeritus
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
web: https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/jfox/
On 2020-10-05 1:09 p.m., Ben Bolker wrote:
Am I confused, or doing something wrong, or ... ?
I have qpdf installed, and am running R CMD build with
--compact-vignettes, but the PDF in the tarball doesn't seem to be
compressed despite the fact that the output messages say "compacting
vignettes ..."
$ R CMD build --compact-vignettes lme4
* checking for file ‘lme4/DESCRIPTION’ ... OK
* preparing ‘lme4’:
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
* cleaning src
* installing the package to process help pages
* saving partial Rd database
* creating vignettes ... OK
Warning: ‘inst/doc’ files
‘lmerperf.html’, ‘lmer.pdf’, ‘PLSvGLS.pdf’, ‘Theory.pdf’
ignored as vignettes have been rebuilt.
Run R CMD build with --no-build-vignettes to prevent rebuilding.
* compacting vignettes and other PDF files
* cleaning src
* checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell
scripts
* checking for empty or unneeded directories
* building ‘lme4_1.1-24.tar.gz’
The copy of lmer.pdf in the resulting tarball is 900K or so:
$ tar ztvf lme4_1.1-24.tar.gz lme4/inst/doc/lmer.pdf
-rw-r--r-- bolker/bolker 907022 2020-10-05 12:59 lme4/inst/doc/lmer.pdf
The previously built (and manually compacted) version of lmer.pdf
in the tarball is 500K:
$ ls -l lme4/inst/doc/lmer.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 bolker bolker 495199 Oct 3 22:15 lme4/inst/doc/lmer.pdf
Is 'R CMD build' confused by the presence of a pre-built PDF in
the inst/doc directory? Or am I somehow mistaken about how this is
supposed to work?
I would just use --no-build-vignettes and submit the tarball with
the previously built/compressed PDF, but I'm trying to avoid a
"Package has a VignetteBuilder field but no prebuilt vignette index"
NOTE, which I assume is missing because I built without building
vignettes ... ?
As always, enlightenment is welcome.
cheers
Ben Bolker
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