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,
On 07/10/2020 8:32 p.m., Ben Bolker wrote:
Thanks for the tip, I'll take a look.
Given that three relatively experienced package authors all seem to
have experienced similar issues, it seems that maybe this is worth
figuring out/maybe I'm not just doing something boneheaded.
Just to
Thanks for the tip, I'll take a look.
Given that three relatively experienced package authors all seem to
have experienced similar issues, it seems that maybe this is worth
figuring out/maybe I'm not just doing something boneheaded.
cheers
Ben
On 10/7/20 8:31 PM, Duncan Murdoch
OK, I think I see the problem. tl;dr use --compact-vignettes="both"
when building the vignettes.
--compact-vignettes by default only tries qpdf.
when the R CMD check --as-cran is run, it tries both qpdf and gs.
Since gs (apparently, in this case) compresses more aggressively than
I don't know the answer to your question, but you can debug the
--compact-vignettes option as follows.
debug(tools::compactPDF)
tools:::.build_packages(c("--compact-vignettes", "pkgdir"))
where "pkgdir" is the directory of the source of your package. Add
extra options to the build as
On 10/7/20 8:35 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 07/10/2020 8:32 p.m., Ben Bolker wrote:
Thanks for the tip, I'll take a look.
Given that three relatively experienced package authors all seem to
have experienced similar issues, it seems that maybe this is worth
figuring out/maybe I'm
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
