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

Yohan Chalabi chalabi at phys.ethz.ch
Mon Aug 17 14:00:32 CEST 2009


>>>> "PBR" == Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
>>>> on Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:34:55 +0100 (BST)

   PBR> This was not implemented in R 2.9.x -- the comments in
   PBR> check.in don't
   PBR> agree with the usage, and it seemed unlikely that anyone
   PBR> really wanted
   PBR> this (it can be very slow, so perhaps a test at a time?),
   PBR> so this was
   PBR> intentional (apart from not altering the reported usage).
   PBR>
   PBR> I've added it back for 2.9.2.
   PBR>
   PBR> It also showed up that R CMD BATCH -d valgrind did not work
   PBR> (but
   PBR> --debugger=valgrind did): also fixed for 2.9.2.


It seems that 'R CMD check' uses now by default valgrind on tests with
the recent changes.

Shouldn't valgrind be only used with 'R CMD check --use-valgrind' ?


regards,
Yohan

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Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Zurich

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