[Rd] R CMD check: small tests suggestion

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sat, 3 May 2008, hadley wickham wrote:

> It would be nice if R CMD check ran any file in the tests directory
> that has "one of the extensions .R, .S, .q, .r, or .s" - i.e. it
> should match the files processed in the R directory.

Whereas what it is documented in 'Writing R Extensions' is to use .R or 
.Rin files.  This leaves the other extensions available for other purposes 
-- the difference is that there should be no other files in the R 
directory, but often will be in the tests directory.

I have some sympathy for .r (which we allow for demos) given the 
prevalence of case-insensitive file systems, but why would it be 'nice' to 
have the others?  And what would the output file be called?  Should .S be 
processed to .Sout and matched to a .Sout.save file?  This would seem to 
introduce more confusion that it might remove.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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