[Rd] CRAN test / avoidance

[Spencer Graves]

On 9/19/2012 11:51 AM, Hadley Wickham wrote:
>> The question becomes: how does information get passed along to indicate
>> things that may take a long time to run. The discussion so far has focused
>> on developers setting, or using, some flags to indicate tests and examples
>> that take a long time. Another option would be to have the check/build
>> process generate a file with information about the time it took to run
>> tests, vignettes, and examples, probably with some information about the
>> speed of the machine it was run on. Then CRAN and anyone else that wants to
>> run tests can take this information into consideration.
> To paraphrase Uwe (fortunes::fortune(192)): computing is cheap and
> thinking hurts.
>
> I don't understand why we are spending so much time discussing what
> probably amounts (at most) to a couple of thousand of dollars of
> compute time.


       I raised the question, because CRAN maintainers rejected the 
latest version of "fda" because some of the examples took too long to 
run on their computers.


       Spencer

>
> Hadley
>


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