[Rd] Control statements with condition with greater than one should give error (not just warning) [PATCH]
Michael Lawrence
lawrence.michael at gene.com
Sat Mar 4 21:20:45 CET 2017
Is there really a need for these complications? Packages emitting this
warning are broken by definition and should be fixed. Perhaps we could
"flip the switch" in a test environment and see how much havoc is wreaked
and whether authors are sufficiently responsive?
Michael
On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 12:04 PM, Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
> wrote:
> >>>>> Henrik Bengtsson <henrik.bengtsson at gmail.com>
> >>>>> on Fri, 3 Mar 2017 10:10:53 -0800 writes:
>
> > On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 9:55 AM, Hadley Wickham
> > <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> But, how you propose a warning-to-error transition
> >>> should be made without wreaking havoc? Just flip the
> >>> switch in R-devel and see CRAN and Bioconductor packages
> >>> break overnight? Particularly Bioconductor devel might
> >>> become non-functional (since at times it requires
> >>> R-devel). For my own code / packages, I would be able
> >>> to handle such a change, but I'm completely out of
> >>> control if one of the package I'm depending on does not
> >>> provide a quick fix (with the only option to remove
> >>> package tests for those dependencies).
> >>
> >> Generally, a package can not be on CRAN if it has any
> >> warnings, so I don't think this change would have any
> >> impact on CRAN packages. Isn't this also true for
> >> bioconductor?
>
> > Having a tests/warn.R file with:
>
> > warning("boom")
>
> > passes through R CMD check --as-cran unnoticed.
>
> Yes, indeed.. you are right Henrik that many/most R warning()s would
> not produce R CMD check 'WARNING's ..
>
> I think Hadley and I fell into the same mental pit of concluding
> that such warning()s from if(<length-larger-one>) ...
> would not currently happen in CRAN / Bioc packages and hence
> turning them to errors would not have a direct effect.
>
> With your 2nd e-mail of saying that you'd propose such an option
> only for a few releases of R you've indeed clarified your intent
> to me.
> OTOH, I would prefer using an environment variable (as you've
> proposed as an alternative) which is turned "active" at the
> beginning only manually or for the "CRAN incoming" checks of
> the CRAN team (and bioconductor submission checks?)
> and later for '--as-cran' etc until it eventually becomes the
> unconditional behavior of R (and the env.variable is no longer used).
>
> Martin
>
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