[R-pkg-devel] problem with donttest example

[Uwe Ligges]

On 26.01.2021 12:20, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 26/01/2021 5:05 a.m., Olivier Martin (BioSP) wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> R CMD check --as-cran now runs \donttest examples .
>>
>>
>> So what is the right way to avoid it, and what is the right way for 
>> submission to CRAN.
> 
> Why are you listing the examples as \donttest?  If it's because they 
> will fail on CRAN, wouldn't they fail on a user's system?  Then you 
> should fix the examples so they don't fail.
> 
> If you marked them that way because they violate some CRAN policy (e.g. 
> writing to a user's home directory), then you should fix them.  Those 
> policies are there to protect users.
> 
> If you marked them that way because they take too long to run, then it 
> seems like CRAN shouldn't complain about the run time.  I don't know if 
> they do or not.

They do not, CRAN does not run --run-donttest examples regularly, only 
occassionally to see if these work, too. We do not complain about 
--run-donttest runtime unless it takes hours and it is unclear whoi is 
supposed to ever look at the examples then.

Best,
Uwe Ligges





> Duncan Murdoch
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