[R-pkg-devel] R package test breakage catch 22

[William Revelle]

Uwe,

As the author of “B”   (the psych package) I will submit it once Jonathon confirms he is ready to submit “A”  (the jmv package).

Thanks for the help.

Bill

> On May 2, 2017, at 10:27 AM, Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
> 
> Submit B first and write in the submission comments that A will fail but a version of A is ready to be submitted once B is accepted.
> 
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
> 
> 
> 
> On 02.05.2017 06:13, Johannes Ranke wrote:
>> 
>>> how does one solve this catch-22?
>> 
>> I see these possibilities
>> 
>> a) reduce the precision of the tests in A, so the test passes with both
>> versions of B
>> 
>> b) a submission of both packages at the same time, with a message in the
>> comments, explaining to CRAN why it is necessary that both are published at
>> the same time (and maybe in more detail why the expected test results
>> changed...)
>> 
>> c) merge the packages into one
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Johannes
>> 
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