Yes - I would suggest that this would be a useful change. As the files in .Rbuildignore are ignored anyway during build. So the ignoring could be done at the copying stage and not during the building stage?
Rainer > On 11 Feb 2020, at 13:20, Hong Ooi <hong...@microsoft.com> wrote: > > They are scanned probably because R CMD build does something like cp * to > copy everything to a temp folder first up, before processing it. An argument > could be made that it should manually loop through all files and dirs, > checking each against .Rbuildignore before copying. > > > From: Rainer M Krug <rai...@krugs.de> > Sent: Tuesday, 11 February 2020 7:38 PM > To: Gábor Csárdi <csardi.ga...@gmail.com> > Cc: Hong Ooi <hong...@microsoft.com>; r-package-devel@r-project.org > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [R-pkg-devel] R CMD build hanging for some but not > all packages > > > > > On 10 Feb 2020, at 17:58, Gábor Csárdi <mailto:csardi.ga...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Maybe you have large, ignored files in the package directory? R first > creates a copy of the whole directory and only applies `.Rbuildignore` > after that. > > > > THANKS - you solved my question without me having to answer it. As I am using > a makefile to build the package, I can easily rename the ignored directories > before calling build. > > But the question is why are these ignored directories scanned before building > the package? They should be ignored anyway? > > Rainer > > > > > Gabor > > On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 4:54 PM Hong Ooi via R-package-devel > <mailto:r-package-devel@r-project.org> wrote: > > > Actually, cancel that: it finished successfully, but took 3 minutes to > prepare the package: > > r$> devtools::build() > v checking for file 'C:\Users\hongo\Documents\GitHub\AzureStor/DESCRIPTION' > - preparing 'AzureStor': (3m 4s) > v checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... > - installing the package to build vignettes > v creating vignettes (6.5s) > - checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts > (13.8s) > - checking for empty or unneeded directories > - building 'AzureStor_3.1.0.9000.tar.gz' > > This is really weird, I'm used to the package prep step taking 10 seconds at > most. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: R-package-devel <mailto:r-package-devel-boun...@r-project.org> On > Behalf Of Hong Ooi via R-package-devel > Sent: Tuesday, 11 February 2020 3:50 AM > To: mailto:r-package-devel@r-project.org > Subject: [EXTERNAL] [R-pkg-devel] R CMD build hanging for some but not all > packages > > This is with R 3.6.2 on Windows 10 Pro 1909. > > In the last couple of weeks, devtools::build() and devtools::check() have > started hanging on some, but not all, of my packages. After some poking > around, I discovered that it's actually R CMD build that is having problems, > right after the "checking for file 'DESCRIPTION'" step. > > A reproducible example can be found by cloning my AzureStor package: > https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FAzure%2FAzureStor&data=02%7C01%7Chongooi%40microsoft.com%7C7962d328eb984556a2e708d7aecdc0db%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637170071036915332&sdata=cmY0VPEiEgcuhI%2B4wIT8iIimQhq7751IJ0KHdsPaMtg%3D&reserved=0 > If you run "R CMD build ." in the package directory, it should hang. This is > a relatively simple package that doesn't require compilation, although it > does import some commonly-used packages like httr, curl, jsonlite and xml2. > > As far as I can tell, R on Ubuntu works fine. What's going on? > > ______________________________________________ > mailto:R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstat.ethz.ch%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fr-package-devel&data=02%7C01%7Chongooi%40microsoft.com%7C7962d328eb984556a2e708d7aecdc0db%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637170071036925320&sdata=XbCKzK3no6v5asG5assjd7oxy%2BOk9or2LbS%2Fkg8GESw%3D&reserved=0 > > ______________________________________________ > mailto:R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > > ______________________________________________ > mailto:R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstat.ethz.ch%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fr-package-devel&data=02%7C01%7Chongooi%40microsoft.com%7C7962d328eb984556a2e708d7aecdc0db%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637170071036925320&sdata=XbCKzK3no6v5asG5assjd7oxy%2BOk9or2LbS%2Fkg8GESw%3D&reserved=0 > > -- > Rainer M. 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