RE: Is there any chance to make mathjaxr non-mandatory in metap
On 29 January 2021 at 14:16, Viechtbauer, Wolfgang (SP) wrote:
| And just a quick follow-up from me:
|
| I now have a working mathjaxr version that contains no minified JS. By cutting out one of the (non-crucial) components from MathJax, I was also able to keep the package size below 5Mb and hence can avoid triggering the 'R CMD check' check warning. I will be submitting this to CRAN asap (after some final testing).
Thank you so much! I still have the open 'ticket' (around here we call them
'intent to package' bug report) for it which I will update once my
CRANberries robot tells me this on CRAN.
Debian is headed into a release which may slow processing of the NEW
(package) queue (our version of CRAN new package checks) down so all this may
take a moment to unravel, but hey it is open source and we (generally) have
(near) infinite time horizons. So eventually this will all pan out. Which is
how it should be -- so thanks for making that happen at your (package) end.
Dirk
| @Andreas: As for using an existing MathJax in the file system: I might look into this in the future, but unfortunately can't spend any time on this right now.
|
| I included Duncan and James in cc as they have also made use of mathjaxr.
|
| Best,
| Wolfgang
|
| >-----Original Message-----
| >From: Michael Dewey [mailto:lists@dewey.myzen.co.uk]
| >Sent: Friday, 29 January, 2021 14:59
| >To: Dirk Eddelbuettel; Viechtbauer, Wolfgang (SP)
| >Cc: Andreas Tille; debian-r@lists.debian.org
| >Subject: Re: Is there any chance to make mathjaxr non-mandatory in metap
| >
| >Comment in-line
| >
| >On 28/01/2021 14:27, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| >>
| >> On 27 January 2021 at 12:03, Viechtbauer, Wolfgang (SP) wrote:
| >> | To be 100% clear: I absolutely understand the concern with the minified
| >JS and I will try to find a solution (when I have the time). However, I
| >personally never install R packages from deb's (i.e., I always install all R
| >packages from source directly from CRAN). R packages are so frequently
| >updated - and for good reason - that I would never rely on what version has
| >been bundled as a deb in the past. But that's just my personal preference.
| >>
| >> So do I, and I maintain ~ 100 of them and started the whole busines (with,
| >> IIRC, r-cran-rodbc almost 18 years ago). I follow CRAN closely, so I just
| >> update to /usr/local/lib/R/site-library daily or almost daily (littler
| >script
| >> `update.r`) on my main machine, and have done so on many work machines
| >over
| >> all those years.
| >>
| >> Michael Rutter' PPA is very good if you are on Ubuntu, and updates about
| >once
| >> a week so I use that on another laptop.
| >>
| >> These Debian packages are very good and very important but they aren't the
| >> only way to use R, and are also sometimes stale plus there may be a Debian
| >> repo lag. Lastly, here for this package: if I were the maintainer, I would
| >> probably just try to patch mathjaxr out for the Debian package.
| >
| >If I understand that correctly that was what I suggested in an earlier
| >part of the thread but Andreas felt that was not suitable. Just for the
| >avoidance of doubt what I was proposing was to edit my macros.Rd file to
| >redefine the mathjaxr macros as base Rd (d)eqn, make relevant changes in
| >DESCRIPTION and NAMESPACE, build and check it and then send Andreas the
| >tar.gz
| >
| >I have not tested that but I cannot see any reason why it would not
| >work. I do realise I may come to regret writing that.
| >
| >>
| >> Dirk
| >>
| >
| >--
| >Michael
| >http://www.dewey.myzen.co.uk/home.html
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