Larger vignettes and R CMD check warnings

[mroswell]

On my machine when running R CMD check I use the option --compact-vignettes=qs+qpdf and get no warnings with devtools::check(args = c('--as-cran'), build_args = c('--compact-vignettes=gs+qpdf')).

I haven't been able to get clean builds with r-lib/actions/check-r-package@v2. My YAML ends with

- uses: r-lib/actions/check-r-package@v2
        with:
          args: 'c("--no-manual", "--as-cran", "--compact-vignettes=both")'

Producing a warning on check on GH:

❯ checking sizes of PDF files under ‘inst/doc’ ... WARNING
    ‘gs+qpdf’ made some significant size reductions:
       compacted ‘Using_MeanRarity.pdf’ from 795Kb to 370Kb
    consider running tools::compactPDF(gs_quality = "ebook") on these files

How can I clear this warning (and build a CRAN-compliant package with vignette...)?

Thanks!

Compress vignettes if they are causing error on R CMD check

[Gabor]

You need build_args I think, because --compact-vignettes is an argument to R CMD build, not R CMD check.

[mroswell]

Thanks, that totally makes sense! I have edited the YAML so it now reads

- uses: r-lib/actions/check-r-package@v2
        with:
          args: 'c("--no-manual", "--as-cran")'
          build_args: c('--compact-vignettes=gs+qpdf')

If this works, it would be awesome if this were either standard in the r-lib action template or documented in the README. Thanks!

[mroswell]

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