[R-pkg-devel] Avoid reprocessing Rmd vignette

Tim Keitt tkeitt at utexas.edu
Mon Mar 19 03:57:20 CET 2018


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On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 8:14 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:

>
> Tim,
>
> On 18 March 2018 at 18:58, Tim Keitt wrote:
> | I have an Rmd vignette that runs some benchmarks. It takes long enough
> (20+
> | minutes) that eg TravisCI will choke. I've not tried submitting to CRAN.
> | What is the best practice for handling this situation? Do I generate
> | HTML/PDF output locally and try to make them static? The vignette builder
> | is knitr. I know about the R.rsp package but I do not know if it handles
> | Rmd files.
>
> Tests are tickled from a runner script such as either one of
>
>       tests/doRUnit.R
>       tests/testthat.R
>
> so you have an entry point to control for environment variables.
>
> Travis clearly documents what theirs are -- so you could just turn it off
> --
> and I have opted (years ago) for a more endogeneous scheme of suppressing
> tests on CRAN based on version numbers (as I suppress tests when version
> numbers are "release-style" form 'a.b.c', but then run the tests when the
> version number is "dev-style" ie a.b.c.d).
>

That's a great idea, however my problem is with building a vignette, not
running tests, unless they are linked in some way I'm not understanding.

THK


>
> You can alternatively check for CRAN via an env.var; I forget what it is
> called and cannot grep for it as my scheme does not need it. WRE may tell
> you
> what it is.
>
> Hth,  Dirk
>
> --
> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org
>

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