Possible conflict with CRAN policies?

[jeffreyhanson]

Hi,

This sounds like an awesome project - nice work! I completely agree that it would be great to reduce the install size of R packages. Would using this tool conflict with CRAN policies? My understanding is that CRAN policies prohibit the removal of debugging symbols from packages. I got caught out by this some years ago when trying to reduce install size for users, so I figured I'd post this here.

Specificially, the CRAN policies state:

Packages should not attempt to disable compiler diagnostics, nor to remove other diagnostic information such as symbols in shared objects.

Also, the Writing R Extensions document states:

The strip utility is platform-specific (and CRAN prohibits removing debug symbols).

[mattfidler]

I used stripper once, and yes it violates the CRAN policies.

[jeffreyhanson]

Ah - thanks for confirming taht @mattfidler.