R devel - Jan 2024 - Determining the size of a package

Dear fellow developers,

Is there an easy way to determine how big my packages  (psych and psychTools) 
will be on various versions of CRAN?

I have been running into the dread 'you are bigger than 5 MB" message
for some installations of R on CRAN but not others.  The particular problem
seems to be some of the mac versions (specifically r-oldrel-macos-arm64 and
r-release-macos-X64 )

When I build it on my Mac M1 it is well within the limits, but when pushing to
CRAN,  I run into the size message.

Is there a way I can find what the size will be on these various implementations
without bothering the nice people at CRAN.

Thanks.

William Revelle            personality-project.org/revelle.html
Professor                    personality-project.org
Department of Psychology         www.wcas.northwestern.edu/psych/
Northwestern University            www.northwestern.edu/
Use R for psychology                 personality-project.org/r
It is 90 seconds to midnight    www.thebulletin.org

William,

the check does not apply to binary installations (such as the Mac builds),
because those depend heavily on the static libraries included in the package
binary which can be quite big and generally cannot be reduced in size - for
example:
https://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-macos-arm64/terra-00check.html

Cheers,
Simon

> On Jan 18, 2024, at 12:26 PM, William Revelle <lists at revelle.net>
wrote:
> 
> Dear fellow developers,
> 
> Is there an easy way to determine how big my packages  (psych and
psychTools)  will be on various versions of CRAN?
> 
> I have been running into the dread 'you are bigger than 5 MB"
message for some installations of R on CRAN but not others.  The particular
problem seems to be some of the mac versions (specifically r-oldrel-macos-arm64
and r-release-macos-X64 )
> 
> When I build it on my Mac M1 it is well within the limits, but when pushing
to CRAN,  I run into the size message.
> 
> Is there a way I can find what the size will be on these various
implementations without bothering the nice people at CRAN.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> William Revelle            personality-project.org/revelle.html
> Professor                    personality-project.org
> Department of Psychology         www.wcas.northwestern.edu/psych/
> Northwestern University            www.northwestern.edu/
> Use R for psychology                 personality-project.org/r
> It is 90 seconds to midnight    www.thebulletin.org
> 
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