From rksh1 at cam.ac.uk  Thu Feb 19 12:47:12 2009
From: rksh1 at cam.ac.uk (Robin Hankin)
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:47:12 +0000
Subject: [Rd] vignette compilation times
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thanks for this clarification Uwe

Could I include the r_env_cache/  directory in the package
and then assume that the CRAN checks use

Sweave(.... , driver=weaver())

in which case the process takes about 10 seconds?

rksh





Uwe Ligges wrote:
>
>
> Robin Hankin wrote:
>> Dear All
>>
>> I am preparing a number of vignettes that require a very  long time to
>> process with Sweave.  The longest one takes 10 hours.  I love the weaver
>> package!
>>
>> Is a package that includes such a computationally intensive vignette
>> acceptable on CRAN?  Are there any guidelines here?
>
> Robin,
>
> please try to keep a package below 5 minutes check time. You know, 
> it's hard to perform daily checks for 1700 packages if just one 
> already runs for 10 hours.
> In reasonable circumstances, we do have exclude lists, but it probably 
> does not make sense to provide that computational intensive vignettes.
> Perhaps you can provide some intermediate results in form of Rdata 
> files  in order to reduce runtime of your vignette's creation (and 
> checks!).
>
> Best wishes,
> Uwe


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[Rd] vignette compilation times
Robin Hankin