Hi Alexey, It's kind of gross, but if you need a local solution, you could put your own executable `cp` script on your PATH somewhere, and have that do something "smart" when it's invoked by R. One way to detect that would be to check if the `R_CMD` environment variable is set. For example:
https://gist.github.com/kevinushey/2351194ba540627831fa2d58073c097a For posterity, this was filed some time ago on R's bug tracker at: https://bugs.r-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17549 Best, Kevin On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 3:00 PM Alexey Sergushichev <alserg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Is there any reason why .Rbuildignore is not used before copying package > files in R CMD build? > > For some of the packages I develop I have rather large directories with > miscellaneous files for testing and other purposes. They are in my > .Rbuildignore (and .gitignore) file, but that doesn't prevent R CMD build > from trying to copy them on the build process. Having them copied either > breaks the build completely because /tmp directory gets out of space, or > just slows it down a lot. So I wonder if there is a specific reason for > this behavior and whether it could be change or controlled by some > parameter. > > There is some discussion in the context of pkgbuild package: > https://github.com/r-lib/pkgbuild/issues/59 It provides a hackish > workaround for that, which also does not work on Windows. > > Best, > Alexey > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
