They are scanned probably because R CMD build does something like cp * to copy everything to a temp folder first up, before processing it. An argument could be made that it should manually loop through all files and dirs, checking each against .Rbuildignore before copying.
From: Rainer M Krug <rai...@krugs.de> Sent: Tuesday, 11 February 2020 7:38 PM To: Gábor Csárdi <csardi.ga...@gmail.com> Cc: Hong Ooi <hong...@microsoft.com>; r-package-devel@r-project.org Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [R-pkg-devel] R CMD build hanging for some but not all packages On 10 Feb 2020, at 17:58, Gábor Csárdi <mailto:csardi.ga...@gmail.com> wrote: Maybe you have large, ignored files in the package directory? R first creates a copy of the whole directory and only applies `.Rbuildignore` after that. THANKS - you solved my question without me having to answer it. As I am using a makefile to build the package, I can easily rename the ignored directories before calling build. But the question is why are these ignored directories scanned before building the package? They should be ignored anyway? Rainer Gabor On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 4:54 PM Hong Ooi via R-package-devel <mailto:r-package-devel@r-project.org> wrote: Actually, cancel that: it finished successfully, but took 3 minutes to prepare the package: r$> devtools::build() v checking for file 'C:\Users\hongo\Documents\GitHub\AzureStor/DESCRIPTION' - preparing 'AzureStor': (3m 4s) v checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... - installing the package to build vignettes v creating vignettes (6.5s) - checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts (13.8s) - checking for empty or unneeded directories - building 'AzureStor_3.1.0.9000.tar.gz' This is really weird, I'm used to the package prep step taking 10 seconds at most. -----Original Message----- From: R-package-devel <mailto:r-package-devel-boun...@r-project.org> On Behalf Of Hong Ooi via R-package-devel Sent: Tuesday, 11 February 2020 3:50 AM To: mailto:r-package-devel@r-project.org Subject: [EXTERNAL] [R-pkg-devel] R CMD build hanging for some but not all packages This is with R 3.6.2 on Windows 10 Pro 1909. In the last couple of weeks, devtools::build() and devtools::check() have started hanging on some, but not all, of my packages. After some poking around, I discovered that it's actually R CMD build that is having problems, right after the "checking for file 'DESCRIPTION'" step. A reproducible example can be found by cloning my AzureStor package: https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FAzure%2FAzureStor&data=02%7C01%7Chongooi%40microsoft.com%7C7962d328eb984556a2e708d7aecdc0db%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637170071036915332&sdata=cmY0VPEiEgcuhI%2B4wIT8iIimQhq7751IJ0KHdsPaMtg%3D&reserved=0 If you run "R CMD build ." in the package directory, it should hang. This is a relatively simple package that doesn't require compilation, although it does import some commonly-used packages like httr, curl, jsonlite and xml2. As far as I can tell, R on Ubuntu works fine. What's going on? ______________________________________________ mailto:R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstat.ethz.ch%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fr-package-devel&data=02%7C01%7Chongooi%40microsoft.com%7C7962d328eb984556a2e708d7aecdc0db%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637170071036925320&sdata=XbCKzK3no6v5asG5assjd7oxy%2BOk9or2LbS%2Fkg8GESw%3D&reserved=0 ______________________________________________ mailto:R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel ______________________________________________ mailto:R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstat.ethz.ch%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fr-package-devel&data=02%7C01%7Chongooi%40microsoft.com%7C7962d328eb984556a2e708d7aecdc0db%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637170071036925320&sdata=XbCKzK3no6v5asG5assjd7oxy%2BOk9or2LbS%2Fkg8GESw%3D&reserved=0 -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Orcid ID: 0000-0002-7490-0066 Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies University of Zürich Office Y34-J-74 Winterthurerstrasse 190 8075 Zürich Switzerland Office: +41 (0)44 635 47 64 Cell: +41 (0)78 630 66 57 mailto:rainer.k...@uzh.ch mailto:rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug PGP: 0x0F52F982 ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
