[R-pkg-devel] Check time > 10min

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 3 June 2025 at 00:12, Murray Efford via R-package-devel wrote:
| My revision of package 'secr' fails CRAN pre-test on Windows (R 4.5.0) because total check time exceeds 10 min (it's 760 seconds or 13 min). I can't see how to fix this as none of the times listed in the log https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/secr_5.2.2_20250602_054847/Windows/00check.log seems exceptional:
| * checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... [18s] OK
| * checking R code for possible problems ... [116s] OK
| * checking examples ... [87s] OK
| * checking tests ... [59s] OK
| * checking re-building of vignette outputs ... [42s] OK
| * checking PDF version of manual ... [32s] OK
| * checking HTML version of manual ... [42s] OK
| and the total of these components is only 396 sec (6.6 min), so I must be missing something. I would appreciate any advice.  Not much was added in this release, and I don't like the idea of blindly hacking off bits.

To a first approximation every tests is a function of some variable we can
describe as 'N' which you, as author of the package and the tests, understand
best.

Surely you must know a way to define a new N1 <- N/2, or some other
appropriate scaling. Then try running with N1 instead. And you can also make
both tests and examples _conditional_ on some other control variable.

It's all just code. Bend it like Beckham.

Dirk

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