[R-pkg-devel] Advice for addressing CRAN rejection

[smallepsilon]

On Wednesday, May 14th, 2025 at 10:51 AM, Tim Taylor <tim.taylor using hiddenelephants.co.uk> wrote:

> I'd just use all.equal but I think you could just check the call is constructed correctly, e.g.
> 
> convenient_modify_matrix <- function(mat) modify_matrix(mat, other_args = default)
> 
> identical(
> body(convenient_modify_matrix),
> call("modify_matrix", quote(mat), other_args = quote(default))
> )

I wondered whether something such as that is possible, but unfortunately, in the actual package, the calls might be different. For example, a function might use an intermediate result saved in one object so the earlier calculations need not be repeated. The calculations in both cases should be exactly the same, though.