[R-pkg-devel] Windows tests for CRAN submission

[Uwe Ligges]

On 10.05.2017 07:58, Shivaram Venkataraman wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm a first time package submitter to CRAN and have a question on how to
> handle unit tests on Windows. The SparkR [1] package [2] file that we are
> trying to submit passes "R CMD check  --as-cran" with no errors on both
> Linux and OS X.
>
> On Windows, the package builds successfully but requires additional
> binaries [3] to be installed in order for the unit tests to run. While we
> have a automated test runner that installs the binaries and runs tests on
> every commit [4] on AppVeyor, when "R CMD check --as-cran" is run on
> winbuilder, the tests fail.
>
> Given this situation, is it possible to specify in our CRAN submission that
> the package should only be tested on Unix machines ? Or is it recommended
> that we include scripts to install the additional binaries during a CRAN
> check on winbuilder ?

Tell me and if the requirements are reasonable and easy to install I'll 
consider to install them.

Best,
Uwe Ligges



> Thanks for your help and please let me know if any further details about
> the package will help in resolving this.
>
> Thanks
> Shivaram
>
> [1] https://github.com/apache/spark/tree/master/R
> [2]
> http://people.apache.org/~pwendell/spark-releases/spark-2.1.1-rc4-bin/SparkR_2.1.1.tar.gz
> [3] https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/R/WINDOWS.md#unit-tests
> [4] https://ci.appveyor.com/project/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/spark/history
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