I have a R package in the directory ~/package; I also keep the output from my use of the package in the directory ~/package/out. When the content of ~/package/out gets very large, it takes minutes instead of seconds to build this package. Is there a way to have "R CMD build package" ignore the ~/package/out directory?
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A:
See the documentation on the .Rbuildignore file in building packages section of the R-Extensions manual.
Joshua Ulrich
2010-10-29 20:00:58
Brevity fail...
Joshua Ulrich
2010-10-29 20:39:55
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A:
You are a little short on details about what is in there --- but R CMD respects .Rbuildignore.
Here is a real example:
edd@max:~$ cat svn/rinside/pkg/.Rbuildignore
inst/doc/html
inst/doc/latex
inst/doc/man
inst/doc
inst/lib
edd@max:~$
which tells R CMD build to ignore the doxygen=-generated documentation, as well as a library directory.
Dirk Eddelbuettel
2010-10-29 20:01:07
Thanks for the example - I just put "out" in the file, and also found that out/*Rdata works as well. although, notably, if it was "out/" or "*Rdata", I got an error "Quantifier follows nothing in regex.
David
2010-10-29 20:25:24