Add details on build_args to handle large vignettes

[mikeroswell]

I wrestled for a while with R CMD check failing on GH actions but succeeding on my machine, due to different arguments to R CMD build. With Help from Gábor Csárdi, I was able to adjust the check-standard.yaml to reproduce the desired, passing test on GH.

My solution was to replace

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

with

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

Hoping you might consider including this in the yaml template, or at least documenting these build_args options a bit more on the README for check-r-package. Thanks!

[gaborcsardi]

I am afraid that this would fail if gs and/or qpdf are not installed.

We could probably add it to the check examples, though, I think those should have gs and qpdf installed.

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