[Rd] Should demo files be run as part of R CMD check?

[Thomas Lumley]

On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, hadley wickham wrote:

> I was a bit suprised to note that demo files are not run as part of R
> CMD check.  This seems out of keeping with the philosophy of running
> all code contained in the package (in the source, in examples etc).
>
> Should demo files be checked as part of R CMD check?
>


The rationale may be that a demo is entitled to assume it is being run 
interactively.  Checking demo(tkdensity), for example, would be 
unproductive.


 	-thomas