[R-pkg-devel] \donttest{} and writing outputs to tempdir()

[Hugh Parsonage]

Are you able to provide a link to your package?  It's a bit hard to
guess what's causing your examples etc to have these problems.

On Wed, 2 Jun 2021 at 14:40, Danielle Maeser <maese005 using umn.edu> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I received the following comments from a CRAN maintainer, and I don't
> understand why they were an issue. I'd appreciate any insight you can
> provide.
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> Danielle
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> *All your examples are wrapped in \donttest{} and therefore do not
> gettested.Please unwrap the examples if that is feasible and if they can
> beexecuted in < 5 sec for each Rd file or create additionally small
> toyexamples to allow automatic testing.*
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> I don't think I can unwrap the examples in \donttest{} because they cannot
> be executed in <5 seconds for each Rd file, and the automatic testing of
> toy data is satisfied in the vignettes I provide for each function.
> Therefore, I am not sure what change to make here.
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> *Please ensure that your functions do not write by default or in
> yourexamples/vignettes/tests in the user's home filespace (including
> thepackage directory and getwd()). This is not allowed by CRAN policies.In
> your examples/vignettes/tests you can write to tempdir().*
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> Additionally, all of my vignettes write the output of each function to
> tempdir(). Therefore, I am not sure why this is a problem.
> --
> Ph.D. Student
> Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
> University of Minnesota
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