The vignettes are no longer being built properly under R v4.2.1 running on Windows when installed via remotes::install_github().

[ScientificProgrammer]

Previously, I've had no problem building the vignettes for the R DiagrammeR package when installing the development version via remotes::install_github. Now, I'm able to install the development version of the package, but the vignettes aren't being built.

As the following output shows, the ``\library\DiagrammeR\html` subdirectory contains just two files, the main html file and its `css` file. In the past, this directory contained all of the needed `html` files referenced by `00Index.html`.

d:\tmp\R>dir /ogn %RPath%\library\DiagrammeR\html
 Volume in drive C is Windows
 Volume Serial Number is 8C87-394D

 Directory of C:\R\R-4.2.1\library\DiagrammeR\html

09/12/2022  05:28 PM    <DIR>          .
09/12/2022  05:28 PM    <DIR>          ..
09/12/2022  05:28 PM            38,464 00Index.html
09/12/2022  05:28 PM             1,735 R.css
               2 File(s)         40,199 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  148,662,890,496 bytes free
    

Here is the command I'm using to install the package, along with the output.

R version 4.2.1 (2022-06-23 ucrt) -- "Funny-Looking Kid"
Copyright (C) 2022 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.

R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type 'contributors()' for more information and
'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.

Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
Type 'q()' to quit R.

> remotes::install_github(
+     'rich-iannone/DiagrammeR',
+     force = TRUE,
+     build_vignettes = TRUE,
+     build_manuals = TRUE
+ )

── R CMD build ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
✔  checking for file 'C:\Users\eric_\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpuS6gNX\remotes1d4420d252f6\rich-iannone-DiagrammeR-3b5f18a/DESCRIPTION' ...
─  preparing 'DiagrammeR': (3.6s)
✔  checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... 
─  checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts (1s)
─  checking for empty or unneeded directories
   Removed empty directory 'DiagrammeR/man/figures'
─  building 'DiagrammeR_1.0.9.9000.tar.gz'
   
* installing *source* package 'DiagrammeR' ...
** using staged installation
** R
** data
*** moving datasets to lazyload DB
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location
** testing if installed package can be loaded from final location
** testing if installed package keeps a record of temporary installation path
* DONE (DiagrammeR)

Please let me know if you need any additional information.

[olivroy]

The vignettes in DiagrammeR are currently there as articles, which mean they are not checked with R CMD CHECK. i.e. they are ignored during build as they are not stable.

This may change in the near future. See https://r-pkgs.org/vignettes.html#sec-vignettes-how-built for reference.