[R-pkg-devel] CRAN submission examples don't run

Horia Yeb hor|@@yeb @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Tue Mar 5 12:59:26 CET 2019


Hi and thank you Joris for the response,

Seeing as my functions are interactive, wouldn't the CRAN check (on
submission) return errors seins that it won't run any of the examples
because they are interactive?

Sorry if the questions sound dumb!

Regards,
Timothy

On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 at 12:56, Joris Meys <Joris.Meys using ugent.be> wrote:

> Dear Timothy,
>
> Uwe meant to include that code in the _examples_, not in your actual
> functions. Whenever an example is expected to open a web page, use
> if(interactive()) to avoid it from being run by the test infrastructure.
>
> On a sidenote: It would make sense to add this as a first check to
> functions which can only work when called interactively. That's up to you.
> However, beware of errors created when the function is not run
> interactively, as this would also cause your examples to give errors.
>
> Cheers
> Joris
>
> On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 11:56 AM Horia Yeb <horia.yeb using gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thank Uwe for the answer,
>> But the purpose of the package is –when the input data is dealt with– open
>> a .html page. Does that mean in my R code I should write :
>> [....]
>> if(interactive())
>> {
>>     .Call(C++ code)
>> }
>> In my c++ code the interactive part is a    *system(html_path);*    is
>> there an equivalent C++ condition to check if interactive?
>>
>> So either I protect the whole C++ function with the interactive check,
>> either I protect the system() call?
>>
>> Thanks, Uwe for the interactive() function I'm new to R and don't know all
>> the functions.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Timothy
>>
>> On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 at 11:35, Uwe Ligges <ligges using statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Apparently your checks wait for the brower beeing closed.
>> >
>> > Do not expect interactions in the examples. Please only run non
>> > interactive functionality in the examples and enclose ingteractice parts
>> > within
>> >
>> > if(interactive()){
>> >
>> > ...}
>> >
>> > Best,
>> > Uwe Ligges
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 05.03.2019 11:10, Horia Yeb wrote:
>> > > Hi all,
>> > > I am still trying to submit my first package, I've corrected a few
>> bibs
>> > and
>> > > bobs and submitted with running examples. On my computer running check
>> > > --as-cran, the examples run perfectly, but on submission they don't
>> seem
>> > to
>> > > run for some reason.
>> > > Here is the return from submission, 3 NOTEs ( the first one is
>> checking
>> > > CRAN incoming feasibility ...) .
>> > >
>> > > ----
>> > > [snipet]
>> > >
>> > > * checking compiled code ... OK
>> > > * checking examples ...
>> > > ** running examples for arch 'i386' ... [53m] NOTE
>> > > Examples with CPU or elapsed time > 10s
>> > >                  user system elapsed
>> > > DataViz-package 0.05   0.02 1844.87
>> > > throwchart      0.03   0.00 1319.79
>> > > ** running examples for arch 'x64' ... [49m] NOTE
>> > > Examples with CPU or elapsed time > 10s
>> > >                  user system elapsed
>> > > DataViz-package 0.03   0.00 1319.66
>> > > throwchart      0.02   0.01 1619.35
>> > > * checking PDF version of manual ... OK
>> > > * DONE
>> > > Status: 3 NOTEs
>> > > ----
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > So I think that the examples aren't running at all rather than taking
>> 50m
>> > > to run. The examples run an R function calling C++ function that
>> > > systematically opens an .html file in a browser. I could see this as a
>> > > problem maybe?
>> > >
>> > > When looking at the pdfs in the package.check in examples the pdf file
>> > > "Package-Ex" is   empty/not working , could this be a reason for the
>> > > malfunction? Or is it normal?
>> > > Here is the report :
>> > >
>> >
>> https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/DataViz_0.2_20190228_113204/Windows/00check.log
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Any help would be appreciated!
>> > > Regards,
>> > >
>> > > Timothy
>> > >
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