[Rd] R CMD check --use-valgrind doesn't run valgrind on tests

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This was not implemented in R 2.9.x -- the comments in check.in don't 
agree with the usage, and it seemed unlikely that anyone really wanted 
this (it can be very slow, so perhaps a test at a time?), so this was 
intentional (apart from not altering the reported usage).

I've added it back for 2.9.2.

It also showed up that R CMD BATCH -d valgrind did not work (but 
--debugger=valgrind did): also fixed for 2.9.2.

On Sun, 16 Aug 2009, Charles Geyer wrote:

> R CMD check --use-valgrind <packagename> used to run valgrind on the
> tests in the tests directory of the package.  But it seems to have stopped.
> R-2.9.1 doesn't -- at least on my box -- and neither does R-2.10.0 (devel).
> I am not sure when this stopped.  I think 2.8.x did this.  The only old
> R I have around is 2.6.0 and it certainly does.
>
> R CMD check --help for 2.9.1 says (among other things)
>
>    --use-valgrind    use 'valgrind' when running examples/tests/vignettes
>
> so the documentation seems to say that the old behavior should also be
> the current behavior, but it isn't -- at least on my box.
>
> oak$ cat /etc/SuSE-release
> openSUSE 11.0 (X86-64)
> VERSION = 11.0
> oak$ valgrind --version
> valgrind-3.3.0
> oak$ gcc --version
> gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.3.1 20080507 (prerelease) [gcc-4_3-branch revision 135036]
>
> If this is just a stupid user problem and not a bug, how do I get the old
> behavior (valgrind is run on tests).  BTW valgrind is run on examples
> under 2.9.0, as cat <packagename>.Rcheck/<packagename>-Ex.Rout shows.
> -- 
> Charles Geyer
> Professor, School of Statistics
> University of Minnesota
> charlie at stat.umn.edu
>
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