On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 7:10 PM, Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal <roy.mendelss...@noaa.gov> wrote: > Hi All: > > I am in the midst of some minor revisions to my xtractomatic package, which > up till now has only been on github. Since ncdf4 for Windows is now > available from CRAN (and many thanks to whomever is responsible for that) I > thought I would try to get it into CRAN. Some questions: > > 1. The vignette uses a lot of packages that the main code does not - I put > those in the DESCRIPTION file, under “Suggests”, is this correct?
Yes. > 2. The vignette uses ggfortify, which was in CRAN for 3.2.x, but is not in > CRAN for 3.3.x. Do I assume then that a submission will fail, or will the > submission work but just without the vignette? Or can I include in the > vignette the command to install from github (using devtools), and then that > will build? You definitely do not want to install packages when running a vignette. Given that ggfortify has been archived (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ggfortify/index.html), I'd recommend using a different package (maybe broom?). > 3. On a remote build, my vignette is likely to fail to build. That is > because the vignette downloads a large amount of data in many requests, and > if for any reason any one of the downloads fail or times out, the vignette > build will fail. As above, will this cause the entire submission to fail, or > just the vignette to fail? And is there anyway to provide a pre-built > vignette in the submission? You shouldn't be downloading data in a vignette. Can you make a separate data package that just bundles the data? Hadley -- http://hadley.nz ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
