Re: Is there any chance to make mathjaxr non-mandatory in metap
Hi,
On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 08:37:16AM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> 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!
+1
> 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.
I think we could try and ping ftpmaster about it. May be we are lucky.
I cannot contribute honest work until 9.2. due to real life things.
Kind regards
Andreas.
> 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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