[R-pkg-devel] Saving output of check()

[J C Nash]

Indeed these are useful for one of my present tasks. Thanks. JN

On 2018-04-11 03:10 PM, Georgi Boshnakov wrote:
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> Not really an answer but I only recently discovered  devtools::revdep(), which automates checking reverse dependencies. 
> 
> Georgi Boshnakov
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> From: R-package-devel [r-package-devel-bounces at r-project.org] on behalf of J C Nash [profjcnash at gmail.com]
> Sent: 11 April 2018 19:05
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> Subject: [R-pkg-devel] Saving output of check()
> 
> Hi,
> 
> In trying to test that an upgrade to my optimx package does not break other
> packages, I wanted to loop over a list of all such packages in alldep, with
> nall the length of this list.
> 
> cat("Check the dependent packages\n")
> for (ii in 1:nall){
>   cpkg <- alldep[ii]
>   dd <- "/home/john/temp/wrkopt/dlpkg"
>   dlname <- download.packages(cpkg, destdir=dd )[[2]]
>   cat("Downloaded ", dlname,"\n")
>   cpkg.chk <- devtools::check_built(dlname)
>   cat("Results package:",cpkg,"\n")
>   print(cpkg.chk)
> }
> 
> Before running this, I did
> 
> sink("dpkgcheck.txt", split=TRUE)
> 
> and afterwards, I did sink().
> 
> But ... none of the check output, nor the result of the final print, show
> up in the output file dpkgcheck.txt.
> 
> Have I totally misunderstood sink(), or is there a nasty bug?
> 
> I've tried running in Rstudio and in the terminal. I'm running Linux Mint
> 18.3 Sylvia.
> 
> Linux john-j6-18 4.10.0-38-generic #42~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 10 16:32:20 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> john at john-j6-18 ~ $ R
> 
> R version 3.4.4 (2018-03-15) -- "Someone to Lean On"
> 
> 
> J C Nash
> 
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