[Bioc-devel] Methods to speed up R CMD Check

[Kern, Lori]

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Lori Shepherd

Bioconductor Core Team

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics

Elm & Carlton Streets

Buffalo, New York 14263

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From: Bioc-devel <bioc-devel-bounces using r-project.org> on behalf of Murphy, Alan E <a.murphy using imperial.ac.uk>
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2021 5:38 AM
To: bioc-devel using r-project.org <bioc-devel using r-project.org>
Subject: [Bioc-devel] Methods to speed up R CMD Check

Hi all,

I am working on the development of [EWCE](https://secure-web.cisco.com/1uG0LGgCjdg85VowwaeRHk2fMjXFkOtQWsgL8p2MQD2j2PZFh_tqvJWaCHJfArA8O4B2WLG1JOwn31NISgSrPW3syUdiPlWNi7cHAMCWKZUQ8d9RrlR-d81LDXXx0xtfCI5ZjjTyFS2xxM2tDea27Y51bWk4Y7jpSnC8Bx768AHBeaJAg3YAK_HTxR6hMzFW99X6Pg8bETgPYi92ccneqdgAJcDBIdfwZnd9OMaM4JS0kY9kYT3F58ho2jM_k0n6EqMzhuXl3HEM7uneL7twMxTTxSZ-vFC1U1eFSkAr0sp38AyD3g6gTbf-vUbghaGV-JBKoybZto3ZDmHhs8OE6cQ/https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FNathanSkene%2FEWCE) but have hit an issue with R CMD check's runtime. I have been informed this test needs to be completed in 15 minutes but mine is currently running in ~24 minutes and I am looking for methods to speed this up. The main culprits for the runtime issue are:

checking examples (5m 49.8s)
Running �testthat.R� [308s/469s] (7m 49.1s)
checking for unstated dependencies in vignettes (7m 49.4s)
checking re-building of vignette outputs (5m 12s)

With the exception of using smaller datasets which I will consider myself, is there known ways of speeding these up? EWCE derives data from an Experimenthub package [ewceData](https://secure-web.cisco.com/1r4B8NJkUGCpdQsdBW8RWLwGvwEA9TlvXY7VUYgAKS-TBmT7s-6a3zMLfS6rXRVUUxG4x8SCYzXUXZKYMtZ_ysyEzk56tVxfvju-9mo6l11KLQ7CzEpFMikVqdyT25f0G3SQK5u9b0_5JK2gNhR4l0j_5_b_B-uPxzyFF0jtLCZFHKW2-pD7e2P4RVOfbgRALwBXM-hQvhcoaxxrR8tWz3JLjKxWqNIhTrsJdATsAnUO0EnQ5U8JNXClmS9LvWwyTf-0ZqokYXTkjdfYDUAm6KiAGNJo4oX99GUBQZllyiIDprF07KeqjsMNMg4dbmMh0t6jl-UEiUaV3j1xRG8UyyA/https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fneurogenomics%2FewceData) for its examples, tests and vignette. This is run repeatedly and I have noted this takes a significant amount of time to load a dataset. Is there anyway of caching the datasets for all the checks or more generally of speeding this up?

I have heard of the use of [long tests](http://secure-web.cisco.com/1yfwFXFFfUKBuFTwUeuS8XGYbh53YduG9ZGKMVmVU9Yrgxg4DbKA0_prEIOCNcgc8uANWYzUw115x_8njawa33mjqM5ZBEvTPTJhmXRzttl1eaRVu3Pa0FTA-d-wPRK3Xxa4miiXob79k_exN0isifYlHPTK7WRxh9_LbFye17PwVVOGsfxjEFKi8WF27D6LWJynf8k-L7iEqB2MSDkf_1zWmfA2qJByna147_Jkaa-nLx9FFl4VhsosBoNDE_qnC939XrCLLCT7RgV0jPukrVdahccxXfT6bgtGBR8ZKfj25BoCeE1_hTJXFgGP0CGmegMYqqmsbd3pGTbo63vTW-A/http%3A%2F%2Fbioconductor.org%2Fdevelopers%2Fhow-to%2Flong-tests%2F) which aren't run daily by Bioconductor but are these still checked in R CMD Check? Is there any other way to exclude my tests from the R CMD Check given they aren't a necessity from Bioconductor?

Does checking for unstated dependencies in vignettes have a long runtime based on the number of package dependencies? If I just export specific functions from packages will this check time reduce?

Lastly, is there any way to get an exception of the 15 minute maximum? I may be ill-informed but is the max time for packages on Bioconductor's daily check 40 minutes which my code in its current state would complete by.

Kind regards,
Alan.


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