> On Feb 28, 2016, at 2:59 PM, Kevin Ushey <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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
>
You don't even need that - it's much easier to simply add a rule to Makevars
along the lines of:
foo.h: foo.bz2.h
${R_BZIPCMD} -d foo.bz2.h
assuming that compression is enough (the referred file doesn't exist in the
sources ...)
Cheers,
Simon
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Baptiste Auguie
> <[email protected]> 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
>>
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