OK, I see now that I was supposed to twig that the reference was to putting the ‘.Rnw' files back into the vignettes directory from the inst/doc directory where they’d been placed in the course of creating the tar.gz file. I am still trying to work out what I need to put into ‘.Rinstignore’ so that ‘.install_extras’ is not installed.
John Maindonald email: john.maindon...@anu.edu.au phone : +61 2 (6125)3473 fax : +61 2(6125)5549 Centre for Mathematics & Its Applications, Room 1194, John Dedman Mathematical Sciences Building (Building 27) Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200. John Maindonald email: john.maindon...@anu.edu.au phone : +61 2 (6125)3473 fax : +61 2(6125)5549 Centre for Mathematics & Its Applications, Room 1194, John Dedman Mathematical Sciences Building (Building 27) Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200. On 26 Jan 2015, at 22:00, <r-devel-requ...@r-project.org> <r-devel-requ...@r-project.org> wrote: > From: Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> > Subject: Re: [Rd] R CMD check message: "The following files should probably > not be installed" > Date: 26 January 2015 19:52:12 AEDT > To: <r-devel@r-project.org> > > > On 25/01/2015 23:25, John Maindonald wrote: >> I am doing [R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31) -- "Pumpkin Helmet”; Platform: >> x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (64-bit)] >> >>> R CMD build DAAGviz >>> R CMD check DAAGviz_1.0.3.tar.gz >> >> Without a .Rinstignore file, I get: >> >> <<< >> The following files should probably not be installed: >> ‘figs10.pdf’, ‘figs11.pdf’, ‘figs12.pdf’, ‘figs13.pdf’, ‘figs14.pdf’, >> ‘figs5.pdf’, ‘figs6.pdf’, ‘figs9.pdf’ >> >> Consider the use of a .Rinstignore file: see ‘Writing R Extensions’, >> or move the vignette sources from ‘inst/doc’ to ‘vignettes’. >>>>> >> >> The vignette sources were in ‘vignettes’ when DAAGviz_1.0.3.tar.gz was >> created. There was nothing in the ‘inst/doc’ directory. >> >> If I have in my .Rinstignore file >> >> inst/doc/.*[.]pdf > > That filters out more than the files warned about. I guess you meant > > inst/doc/figs.*[.]pdf > > But the question has to be: how did the files get copied into inst/doc? Maybe > > 'When R CMD build builds the vignettes, it copies these and the vignette > sources from directory vignettes to inst/doc. To install any other files from > the vignettes directory, include a file vignettes/.install_extras which > specifies these as Perl-like regular expressions on one or more lines. (See > the description of the .Rinstignore file for full details.)' > > suggests how? > >> then I get: >> >> <<< >> * checking package vignettes in ‘inst/doc’ ... WARNING >> Package vignettes without corresponding PDF/HTML: >> . . . >>>>> >> >> What am I missing? Can I ignore the "The following files should probably >> not be installed” message? > > Not if you want to submit the package to CRAN. > > >> >> John Maindonald email: john.maindon...@anu.edu.au >> phone : +61 2 (6125)3473 fax : +61 2(6125)5549 >> Centre for Mathematics & Its Applications, Room 1194, >> John Dedman Mathematical Sciences Building (Building 27) >> Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> > > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford > 1 South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3TG, UK ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
