Hi Lori,
Thanks for the reply. The actual tar.gz built by R CMD build is only 3Mb so maybe I should ignore the note and submit? The note may actually be referring to large .git objects in the git history - not sure. Regards, Kenneth On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 12:15 PM, Shepherd, Lori < lori.sheph...@roswellpark.org> wrote: > > Please review the package guidelines - > > > http://bioconductor.org/developers/package-guidelines/ > > > Generally, Bioconductor will insist that the R CMD built package tar.gz be > less than 4MB for software packages (There are some exceptions for data > experiment or annotation packages). > > > If this is a software packages, there are a few options > > > With large data files: > > 1. Reduce the size of the data. A full data set is often not needed to > display the functionality and utility of a package. A reduced smaller > subset of data is recommended > > 2. See if there is already existing data available in one of the data > experiment packages or experimenthub that can be used instead of providing > new data. > > 3. separate out the data files into a separate associate data > experiment package or use the experimenthub to store data. > > > > Are you generating or providing a lot of static image files for the > vignette? There might also be some opportunity to reduce the size but have > images generated automatically if this is the case. > > > > > > Lori Shepherd > > Bioconductor Core Team > > Roswell Park Cancer Institute > > Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics > > Elm & Carlton Streets > > Buffalo, New York 14263 > ------------------------------ > *From:* Bioc-devel <bioc-devel-boun...@r-project.org> on behalf of > Kenneth Condon <roonysga...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Saturday, May 12, 2018 6:23:02 PM > *To:* bioc-devel > *Subject:* [Bioc-devel] Package size note > > Hi all, > > I almost have a clean R CMD check. > > R CMD check results0 errors | 0 warnings | 1 note checking installed > package size ... NOTE > installed size is 6.1Mb > sub-directories of 1Mb or more: > data 3.0Mb > doc 2.9Mb > > > Firstly, do I need to get this below 5Mb? > > Secondly, I don't have a sub-directory called 'doc' - what is this? > > Regards, > Kenneth > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > > This email message may contain legally privileged and/or confidential > information. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or the employee or > agent responsible for the delivery of this message to the intended > recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, > distribution, or use of this email message is prohibited. If you have > received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by > e-mail and delete this email message from your computer. Thank you. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
