[Rcpp-devel] lighter source package

[Baptiste Auguie]

On 1 March 2016 at 04:21, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:

>
> On 29 February 2016 at 09:48, Simon Urbanek wrote:
> |
> |
> | > On Feb 28, 2016, at 2:59 PM, Kevin Ushey <kevinushey at gmail.com> wrote:
> | >
> | > What about having a 'configure' script that generates this header file
> | > on package install?
> | >
> https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html#Configure-and-cleanup
> | >
> |
> | You don't even need that - it's much easier to simply add a rule to
> Makevars along the lines of:
> |
> | foo.h: foo.bz2.h
> |       ${R_BZIPCMD} -d foo.bz2.h
>
> I think you want foo.h.bz2 in both places.
>
> Dirk
>
> Thanks both, I like the simplicity of it. And sorry the link is now dead
since I removed the file from the repo (
https://github.com/baptiste/planar/blob/8c2000c39307d991f1ed237b02f09472fd5e268f/src/clencurt.h).
Running bzip2 -z clencurt.h brings it down from 40Mb to 14Mb, which is an
improvement.
I'm sure I'll use this tip in the future, thanks!

baptiste



> |
> | assuming that compression is enough (the referred file doesn't exist in
> the sources ...)
> |
> | Cheers,
> | Simon
> |
> |
> |
> | > On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Baptiste Auguie
> | > <baptiste.auguie at gmail.com> wrote:
> | >> Dear Rcpp gurus,
> | >>
> | >> In the process of updating my planar package
> | >> <https://github.com/baptiste/planar>, CRAN has mentioned their
> concern with
> | >> the size of the source package (20Mb compressed tar.gz). This puzzled
> me
> | >> until I found the culprit: a 40Mb header file
> | >> <https://github.com/baptiste/planar/blob/master/src/clencurt.h> with
> 500k
> | >> pre-calculated quadrature points.
> | >> I'm thinking that the easiest strategy is probably to compress these
> data
> | >> into binary form, say as a Rdata file in inst/, and have the Makefile
> do
> | >> some magic to recover it during the package compilation. I'm not sure
> how to
> | >> achieve this, or if it even makes sense. Any example of a similar
> procedure
> | >> I could follow?
> | >>
> | >> Thanks,
> | >>
> | >> baptiste
> | >>
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