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

[Shivaram Venkataraman]

On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 9:58 AM, Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
> wrote:

> 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.
>
> Thanks for your reply. The requirements are to have the Hadoop windows
utils package installed. I wrote a small power shell script to do this at
https://gist.github.com/shivaram/bd5d17c31ce9d89035559fa956f59fc1 . The
script sets $HADOOP_HOME and adds $HADOOP_HOME/bin to $PATH. More details
about what is getting installed is at
https://github.com/steveloughran/winutils

On a related note: Would anybody happen to know what the value of JAVA_HOME
is set to on the winbuilder machine ?

Thanks
Shivaram


> 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/spa
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