Kenneth, You should _always_ run R CMD check (and R CMD BiocCheck) on the tarball generated by R CMD build. The build step essentially cleans the code. If your vignette takes a bit to generate (the vignette gets generated with R CMD build), just do R CMD build --no-build-vignettes
Best, Kasper On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 9:41 AM, Kenneth Condon <roonysga...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
