What about having a 'configure' script that generates this header file on package install? https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html#Configure-and-cleanup
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Baptiste Auguie <baptiste.aug...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Rcpp gurus, > > In the process of updating my planar package > <https://github.com/baptiste/planar>, CRAN has mentioned their concern with > the size of the source package (20Mb compressed tar.gz). This puzzled me > until I found the culprit: a 40Mb header file > <https://github.com/baptiste/planar/blob/master/src/clencurt.h> with 500k > pre-calculated quadrature points. > I'm thinking that the easiest strategy is probably to compress these data > into binary form, say as a Rdata file in inst/, and have the Makefile do > some magic to recover it during the package compilation. I'm not sure how to > achieve this, or if it even makes sense. Any example of a similar procedure > I could follow? > > Thanks, > > baptiste > > _______________________________________________ > Rcpp-devel mailing list > Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org > https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel _______________________________________________ Rcpp-devel mailing list Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel
