[R-pkg-devel] some notes

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 24/04/2018 1:07 PM, Xubo Yue wrote:
> Everyone, I appreciate for your help!
> 
> Hey Uwe Ligges:
> 
> There are four examples in my package: read data, calculate correlation, 
> plot, and summarize connection network. The plot is the slowest one and 
> I have to use donttest{} to avoid testing it on CRAN. All other examples 
> are fast and take less than 10s, so I can let CRAN test it.
> 
> Also Swetlana suggest me to write a vignette to demonstrate plot. 
> However, my plot is in rgl device (an rgl window separated from default 
> R plot window) and cannot be integrated into rmarkdown.

That's not true -- see the rgl vignettes, and the rglwidget() function. 
The main limitation is that the output needs to be HTML rather than 
LaTeX/PDF.  (There are ways to incorporate interactive rgl graphics into 
PDF documents, but they are limited and fragile, so I don't recommend them.)

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> So in a nutshell: can I just use donttest{} to my plot example and 
> comment that it takes a long time to run?
> 
> It is my first time to submit r package, sorry for any inconvenience!
> 
> Thank you very much for your help!
> 
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 1:01 PM, Duncan Murdoch 
> <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com <mailto:murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 24/04/2018 12:48 PM, Uwe Ligges wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>         On 24.04.2018 18:45, Spencer Graves wrote:
> 
>     [... deleting irrelevant stuff...]
> 
> 
> 
>                      If it becomes infeasible to find smaller datasets,
>             etc., you can
>             cut out certain tests with a construct like the following:
> 
> 
>             if(!fda::CRAN()){
>             # ... tests to run on other computers but to skip on CRAN.  ...
>             }
> 
> 
>         Ummm, how should fda::CRAN() now that it runs on CRAN?
> 
>         CRAN prefers to ship a set of examples/tests etc. that meet our
>         requirements. If you want to ru addtional tests and/or examples,
>         then
>         run them conditionally on something that is true for your local
>         machine,
>         e.g. some defined environment variable.
> 
> 
>     For Xubo Yue, who may not be aware of all of the players:
> 
>     Uwe Ligges is one of the individuals who runs CRAN.  When you submit
>     a package to CRAN, you are asking Uwe and others to distribute your
>     work. You should listen to what he says.
> 
>     Spencer Graves and I are not involved in running CRAN.  We will give
>     you advice that we think is good advice, but if it conflicts with
>     Uwe's, follow his.
> 
>     Duncan Murdoch
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> *Xubo (Max) YUE, *PhD Student,
> /The Industrial and Operation Engineering Department,/
> /College of Engineering,/
> /The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA/
> 
>