[R-pkg-devel] Submission to CRAN when package needs personal data (API key)
Thierry Onkelinx
thierry@onkelinx @ending from inbo@be
Thu Sep 6 09:25:02 CEST 2018
Dear Rainer,
It looks like you are using testthat. testthat has a skip_on_cran()
function. This will always skip the subsequent tests in the script unless
the environment variable NOT_CRAN is set.
Best regards,
Thierry
ir. Thierry Onkelinx
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2018-09-06 8:30 GMT+02:00 Rainer M Krug <Rainer using krugs.de>:
>
>
> > On 5 Sep 2018, at 20:20, Henrik Bengtsson <henrik.bengtsson using gmail.com
> <mailto:henrik.bengtsson using gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > I take a complementary approach; I condition on, my home-made,
> > R_TEST_ALL variable. Effectively, I do:
> >
> > if (as.logical(Sys.getenv("R_TEST_ALL", "FALSE"))) {
> > ...
> > }
> >
> > and set R_TEST_ALL=TRUE when I want to run that part of the test. You
> > can also imagine refined versions of this, e.g. R_TEST_SETS=foo,bar
> > and test scripts with:
> >
> > if ("foo" %in% strsplit(Sys.getenv("R_TEST_SETS"), split="[, ]+")[[1]])
> {
> > ...makes no assumption
> > }
> >
> > That avoids making assumptions on where the tests are submitted/run,
> > may it be CRAN, Bioconductor, Travis CI, …
>
> Thanks Henrik - that sounds like a good idea. At the moment, I am checking
> for the name of my machine, which is obviously not to robust.
>
> I will implement this before submission to CRAN.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rainer
>
> >
> > /Henrik
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 11:08 AM Spencer Graves
> > <spencer.graves using effectivedefense.org <mailto:spencer.graves@
> effectivedefense.org>> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 2018-09-05 12:52, Gábor Csárdi wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 6:34 PM Spencer Graves
> >>> <spencer.graves using effectivedefense.org <mailto:spencer.graves@
> effectivedefense.org>> wrote:
> >>>> The fda package disables some tests on CRAN using:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> if(!fda::CRAN()){
> >>>> test you don't want run on CRAN
> >>>> }
> >>> Seemingly this just checks for a couple of (5 by default) environment
> >>> variables that match "^_R_":
> >>> https://github.com/cran/fda/blob/0549e6a86aa144d8c2aade2d8704a2
> 69fb8a94ed/R/CRAN.R#L14 <https://github.com/cran/fda/blob/
> 0549e6a86aa144d8c2aade2d8704a269fb8a94ed/R/CRAN.R#L14>
> >>>
> >>> I am not sure if this is a good indication of the machine being a CRAN
> >>> machine, I do set some of these
> >>> occasionally on my machine. It would be great if CRAN machines could
> >>> set a specific environment
> >>> variable globally, e.g. ON_CRAN, or _R_ON_CRAN_, so people could skip
> >>> these tests and examples
> >>> easily.
> >>
> >>
> >> Agreed. Before I wrote that function, I asked this list for
> >> suggestions. The suggestion I got was, "Don't do it." I felt that was
> >> not acceptable so wrote what I did. I think we need a better solution.
> >> Spencer
> >>>
> >>> Gabor
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I've used this in other contexts with tests that are too long
> to
> >>>> run on CRAN but that I want to run otherwise during "R CMD check".
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Spencer Graves
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 2018-09-05 12:13, Peter Meissner wrote:
> >>>>> Hey,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Maybe webmockr (or something alike) can help:
> >>>>> https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/webmockr/index.html <
> https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/webmockr/index.html>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Best, Peter
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Rainer M Krug <Rainer using krugs.de> schrieb am Mi., 5. Sep. 2018, 15:38:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> OK - thanks. I will than disable the checks for CRAN.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Rainer
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On 5 Sep 2018, at 15:37, Uwe Ligges <ligges using statistik.tu-dortmund.
> de>
> >>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>> You should not run on CRAN. Note that the checks are done almost
> daily
> >>>>>> oin several platforms, hence the API key is used for about 10 check
> runs a
> >>>>>> day.
> >>>>>>> Best,
> >>>>>>> Uwe Ligges
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On 05.09.2018 09:28, Rainer Krug wrote:
> >>>>>>>> Hi
> >>>>>>>> I have a package at GitHub (https://github.com/rkrug/ROriginStamp
> )
> >>>>>> which I am pre[paring for CRAN.
> >>>>>>>> It creates a trusted timestamp using the API fro OriginStamp (
> >>>>>> https://originstamp.org/home) which requires an API key. Now this
> API
> >>>>>> should not be made public, as to much traffic through one API key
> will lead
> >>>>>> to it’s blocking.
> >>>>>>>> I have stored the key encrypted in the travis.yml, and the package
> >>>>>> passes all tests.
> >>>>>>>> But if I send it to CRAN, it would fail the tests, as the api key
> is
> >>>>>> not in the package itself.
> >>>>>>>> I could disable all tests for CRAN which need the API key, but I
> think
> >>>>>> it would be better tu run the tests there as well (as an additional
> check
> >>>>>> to travis).
> >>>>>>>> My question:
> >>>>>>>> Is there a way of storing the API key encrypted, so that only the
> CRAN
> >>>>>> test servers can decrypt it, or is there another way can steal with
> this?
> >>>>>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>>>>> Rainer
> >>>>>>>> --
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> >>>>>> Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)
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> Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)
>
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