On Jul 14, 2010, at 4:04 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Felix Schönbrodt wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> my package passes R CMD check without any warnings on my local machine (Mac >> OS), as well as on Uwe Ligges' Winbuilder. On RForge, however, we sometimes >> run into problems building the Sweave vignettes. > > Just 'problems' is not helpful. >
FWIW I think it was a red herring - after bugfixes to the package and installing (unstated*) dependencies it works (possibly use of require instead of library in the vignette might help - I don't know what the best practice is). >> Now here's my question: is it necessary for a CRAN submission that the >> Sweave vignettes can be compiled on CRAN, or is it possible to provide the >> (locally compiled) pdf vignette to be included in the package? > > This really is a question to ask the CRAN gatekeepers, but people are on > vacation right now, so I've give some indication of my understanding. > > What does 'compiled' mean here? (Run through LaTeX? Run the R code?) There > are examples on CRAN of packages which cannot re-make their vignettes without > external files (e.g. LaTeX style files), or take hours (literally) to run the > code. The source package should contain the PDF versions of the vignettes as > made by the author. > > There is relevant advice in 'Writing R Extensions'. > > What the people who do the CRAN package checks do get unhappy about are > packages which fail running the R code in their vignettes, since this often > indicates a problem in the package which is not exercised by the examples nor > tests. This gives a warning, as you will see in quite a few CRAN package > checks. > In the case of TripleR R CMD check failed (i.e. error code != 0) because of the vignette. Cheers, Simon * - which reminds me -- what is the correct place to list vignette dependencies? "Suggests:" ? R CMD check simply fails in the vignette build when vignetts use unstated dependencies [via library()] - there is no explicit warning/error by check itself. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
