[R-pkg-devel] R CMD Check: Tests running infinite

[Henrik Bengtsson]

In case someone else bumps into this later and finds this thread; can
you confirm that this was a problem specific to using the testthat
package for running the tests?

/Henrik

On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Patrick Schratz
<patrick.schratz at gmail.com> wrote:
> @gaborcsardi solved it :) See here:
> https://github.com/hadley/testthat/issues/567#issuecomment-277536577
>
>
> 2017-02-05 16:07 GMT+01:00 Patrick Schratz <patrick.schratz at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Thanks for the hint, Hendrik!
>> However, this change did not make a difference :/
>>
>> I tried to use all cluster closing functions I came across but tests are
>> still running infinite..
>>
>> cl <- makeCluster(par.args$par.units, outfile = out.progress)
>> registerDoParallel(cl)
>>
>> foreach()
>>
>> parallel::stopCluster(cl)
>> doParallel::registerDoSEQ()
>> doParallel::stopImplicitCluster()
>>
>> 2017-02-05 15:04 GMT+01:00 Henrik Bengtsson <henrik.bengtsson at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> Use
>>>
>>>   registerDoParallel(cl)
>>>
>>> The number of parallel workers is already contained in the 'cl' object,
>>> so don't specify 'cores'!  (If you do that, I suspect you create yet another
>>> cluster (a multicore one) which is used but never closed)
>>>
>>> registerDoParallel() should ideally give an error in your case. Author
>>> BCC:ed.
>>>
>>> Henrik
>>>
>>> On Feb 5, 2017 03:56, "Patrick Schratz" <patrick.schratz at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear Uwe,
>>>>
>>>> thanks for the hint. My cluster is closed after the `foreach`call using
>>>> `stopCluster()`.
>>>>
>>>> Before, I´ll do the following to init the cluster:
>>>>
>>>> *cl <- makeCluster(par.args$par.units, outfile = out.progress)*
>>>> *registerDoParallel(cl, cores = par.args$par.units)*
>>>>
>>>> *foreach()*
>>>>
>>>> *stopCluster(cl)*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Do you know of any other package which is using foreach in combination
>>>> with
>>>> tests and is hosted on Github? So I could compare settings.
>>>>
>>>> Best, Patrick
>>>>
>>>> 2017-02-02 0:01 GMT+01:00 Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>:
>>>>
>>>> > Check whether the parallel cluster is closed. Can it be that the
>>>> > cluster
>>>> > is still open and the check process waits for them to complete?
>>>> >
>>>> > Best,
>>>> > Uwe Ligges
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > On 31.01.2017 13:45, Patrick Schratz wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >> Hello,
>>>> >>
>>>> >> when running R CMD check / devtools::check, section "running
>>>> >> tests..." is
>>>> >> not finishing (40 min+).
>>>> >>
>>>> >> *Checking tests only works:*
>>>> >>
>>>> >> *==> Sourcing R files in 'tests' directory*
>>>> >>
>>>> >> *testthat results
>>>> >> ================================================================*
>>>> >> *OK: 7 SKIPPED: 0 FAILED: 0*
>>>> >>
>>>> >> *Tests complete*
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> As well as running tests line-by-line.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> How can I debug my tests to discover the problem during R CMD check?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> *Tests are using parallelization (foreach + doParallel)*
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Best, Patrick
>>>> >>
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