[Rd] Small enhancement for CMD check

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> Unfortunately it would need a major rewrite, and either piping output through 
> a pager (surely the standard Unix way to handle this) or redirecting to a 
> file is the simplest way to do this.
>
> R CMD check calls a process to run .runPackageTestsR, which calls further 
> processes to run each test and diff the results.  We could simply capture 
> stdout/stderr of .runPackageTestsR, but then one would have to wait until all 
> the tests had run before seeing any output, which may mean waiting hours -- 
> that was decided to be too undesirable.

I've implemented in R-devel something that copies the output on a 
per-test basis to 00check.log.  It may not be perfect (in particular 
if a test crashes its R process badly enough), but it will at least 
record a test-by-test summary of success/failure.

> On Fri, 25 Feb 2011, Terry Therneau wrote:
>
>> It would be nice if the 00check.log file also included this part of the
>> output:
>>  Running ‘bladder.R’
>>  Comparing ‘bladder.Rout’ to ‘bladder.Rout.save’ ... OK
>>  Running ‘book1.R’
>>  Comparing ‘book1.Rout’ to ‘book1.Rout.save’ ... OK
>>  Running ‘book2.R’
>>  Comparing ‘book2.Rout’ to ‘book2.Rout.save’ ... OK
>> 
>> etc.
>>
>>  The survival package has enough test scripts that it exceeds my
>> terminal's scroll bar; I have to either watch closely or run
>> R CMD check survival >& mylog
>
> The most prolix are
> survival portfolio    matlab  kappalab  spatstat
>       68        36        32        30        28
>       BB    HSAUR2    fields     pcalg     aster
>       26        22        22        22        21
>
> The remedy seems to be to group the tests into larger units.
>
>> Terry Therneau
>
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> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595