If you re-exported all the psychTools functions from psych, I doubt a typical user would notice or care. For example, this is how dplyr split out some of it's functions in to another package: https://github.com/tidyverse/dplyr/blob/master/R/reexport-tidyselect.R
On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 9:03 AM William Revelle <li...@revelle.net> wrote: > Dear friends, > > For the last several iterations of psych I have received the Note that the > installed size is 6.7 MB with two subdirectories greater than 1 MB. > > In the most recent submission to CRAN this led to an automatic rejection > which then Uwe kindly overrode to allow the installation on CRAN. > > In order to make life easier for the CRAN folk, I would like to try to > avoid this problem in the future. > > The only way I can see to get around this note is to split the package > into 2: psych and psychTools where psych would require psychTools but > psychTools would not require psych. The presumption is that with > appropriate splitting, both packages would meet the 1 MB suggestion. > > However, this implies that loading psych still takes up just as much space > as before (since it would also load psychTools) and so it is not clear if > this is a benefit. It might even be detrimental to the naive user who > doesn’t load them both. It would be useful, perhaps, for those who use > psych for the extra features rather than core psychometric ones. They > would just need to load psychTools. > > I am not sure how well the splitting would work in terms of solving the > problem and before embarking on this exercise, I would appreciate > suggestions as to whether it is necessary (or at least useful). > > Thanks, > > Bill > > > William Revelle personality-project.org/revelle.html > Professor personality-project.org > Department of Psychology www.wcas.northwestern.edu/psych/ > Northwestern University www.northwestern.edu/ > Use R for psychology personality-project.org/r > It is 2 minutes to midnight www.thebulletin.org > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
