[Rd] rhub vs. CRAN fedora-*-devel, using armadillo & slapack

[Sebastian Meyer]

Am 10.01.23 um 21:28 schrieb Duncan Murdoch:
> On 10/01/2023 2:05 p.m., Ivan Krylov wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Jan 2023 16:27:53 +0000
>> RICHET Yann <yann.richet using irsn.fr> wrote:
>>
>>> In facts, 10 threads are asked by armadillo for some LinAlg, which
>>> backs to two threads as warned.
>>
>> I think you're right about your tests de-facto using two threads, but
>> it might be a good idea to _default_ to up to two threads in tests and
>> examples. This is especially valuable for third-party developers who
>> have to mass-test packages (one of which could be rlibkriging) in
>> parallel.
>>
>>> - is there any reason that could explain that fedora-*-devel is so
>>> slow for this package or compilation of Rcpp/testthat ?
>>
>> Compilation time is definitely not the reason. Something in tests/*
>> actually runs for 30 minutes by itself.
>>
>>> - is there any chance that I can get a deeper log of what happened ?
>>
>> If you split your tests into separate files under tests/*.R instead of
>> using a single tests/testthat.R calling the rest of the tests, R will
>> be able to show you the individual test file that hung and maybe the
>> line where it happened. (Also, you'll get per-file timing.) But that
>> is potentially a huge investment: you may have to rewrite the tests to
>> work outside the testthat harness, and you'd also have to prepare
>> another CRAN submission just to have those tests run. It's also against
>> CRAN policy to knowingly submit a package with unfixed ERRORs.
>>
>> (Currently, R can only tell you that the tests hung in the
>> test_check('rlibkriging') call in the tests/testthat.R, which isn't
>> precise enough.)
> 
> You can specify a different "reporter" in the test_check() call, and it 
> will print more useful information.  I don't think there's a perfect 
> one, but
> 
>    test_check('rlibkriging', reporter = "progress")
> 
> should at least show you the tests that finished running before the 
> timeout.  

I had similar problems with testthat and timeouts when mass-checking 
packages on patched R versions. My notes say

> ## testthat's 'LocationReporter' does cat() after each expectation
> ## so we can see results even if timeout is reached
> options(testthat.default_check_reporter = c("Location", "Check"))

The help("LocationReporter") says: "This reporter simply prints the 
location of every expectation and error. This is useful if you're trying 
to figure out the source of a segfault, or you want to figure out which 
code triggers a C/C++ breakpoint"

HTH!

	Sebastian Meyer

> You could possibly also write your own custom reporter that 
> could give timings for each of the tests as they run, but the documents 
> for how to do that don't seem to exist.  Maybe someone else has done it?
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
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