Re: [R-pkg-devel] is R CMD build --compact-vignettes working as expected?

2020-10-08 Thread John Fox
Dear all, First, thank you to everyone who responded. Let me be more specific about what I did, focusing on macOS (since I did most of this on Windows too): (1) I observed the problem with the Rcmdr package, including version 2.7-1, which is newly on CRAN. Presumably, it wouldn't be hard to

Re: [R-pkg-devel] is R CMD build --compact-vignettes working as expected?

2020-10-08 Thread Duncan Murdoch
When I tried that on MacOS, it did the gs compression with gs_quality set to "none", which does nothing. I don't know what quality CRAN uses, but for me setting the environment variable GS_QUALITY=screen made a big difference. Duncan Murdoch On 08/10/2020 11:10 a.m., John Fox wrote: Dear

Re: [R-pkg-devel] is R CMD build --compact-vignettes working as expected?

2020-10-08 Thread Henrik Singmann
Hi both, I am not sure if this might be the issue here, but I think on both Linux and Windows I need to use the both option without quotation marks: --compact-vignettes=both Best, Henrik Am Do., 8. Okt. 2020 um 17:21 Uhr schrieb Ben Bolker : > >Huh, weird. "both" worked for me. > >My

Re: [R-pkg-devel] is R CMD build --compact-vignettes working as expected?

2020-10-08 Thread John Fox
Dear Ben, Actually, what I used was --compact-vignettes="both", with qpdf and gs installed on my Windows and Mac machines, and that apparently didn't work for me. Best, John On 2020-10-07 10:06 p.m., Ben Bolker wrote:   OK, I think I see the problem. tl;dr use --compact-vignettes="both"