[R] Creating .Rout.save files for package subdirectory "tests"

[Arne Henningsen]

Thank you, Martin and Prof. Ripley, for your very helpful answers! 
It would be nice if this could be mentioned in section 1.1.4 of the "Writing R 
Extensions" manual. 
Arne

On Friday 05 November 2004 12:17, Martin Maechler wrote:
> >>>>> "Arne" == Arne Henningsen <ahenningsen at email.uni-kiel.de>
> >>>>>     on Fri, 5 Nov 2004 11:56:02 +0100 writes:
>
>     Arne> Hi, I added the "tests" subdirectory and a test file
>     Arne> (say "myTest.R") to our "systemfit" package. Up to now
>     Arne> I create the "myTest.Rout.save" file with
>
>     >> R CMD BATCH --vanilla myTest.R myTest.Rout.save
>
> that explains everything.
> Why do you do so?
>
> Instead:
>
> 1) Start with no '.Rout.save'
>
> 2) R CMD check  <pkg>
>    will produce one in  <pkg>.Rcheck/tests/myTest.Rout
>    Copy it to the package source, i.e. typically
>
>    cp <pkg>.Rcheck/tests/myTest.Rout <pkg>/tests/myTest.Rout.save
>
> 3) R CMD check  <pkg>
>    now *will* do the comparison and give no difference hopefully
>
> Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
>
>
>     Arne> However, "R CMD check" reports two differences between
>     Arne> myTest.Rout.save and the output of myTest.R: a)
>     Arne> myTest.Rout.save contains following extra line at the
>
>     Arne> beginning of the file:
>     >> invisible(options(echo = TRUE))
>
>     Arne> b) myTest.Rout.save contains the following 2 extra
>
>     Arne> lines at the very end of the file:
>     >> proc.time()
>
>     Arne> [1] 1.80 0.07 2.00 0.01 0.00
>
>     Arne> Everytime I change myTest.R and create a new
>     Arne> myTest.R.save file I have to delete these 3 lines by
>     Arne> hand. I could do this e.g. by a script using "sed",
>     Arne> but I wonder if I can start "R CMD BATCH" with an
>     Arne> option that suppresses any commands that are not in
>     Arne> the input file, i.e. "invisible(options(echo = TRUE))"
>     Arne> and "proc.time()".  Or what is the easiest way to
>     Arne> create .Rout.save files?  (I am using R 2.0.0 on a
>     Arne> i686 PC with SuSE Linux 9.0)
>
>     Arne> Thanks, Arne

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