[R-sig-Debian] pkg/tests: how to run them with --vanilla

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 3 July 2010 at 11:07, mat wrote:
| Hello
| 
| I recently submitted an update of a package, and received error reports 
| from CRAN maintainers concerning the pkg/tests section:
| 
| > Next time you update, can you please ensure that the .Rout.save files 
| > are generated in English (with LANGUAGE=en set).  R 2.12.x will ensure 
| > that the tests are run in English, and it saves a lot of unnecessary 
| > chatter if the reference results also are.
| >
| > As a further point,
| >
| >> [Sauvegarde de la session précédente restaurée]
| >
| > indicates that they were not generated in a vanilla session, and they 
| > should be (as the tests are run with --vanilla --slave).
| >
| > Brian Ripley 
|   I always used to run the .Rout.save files with R CMD BATCH xxx.R So it 
| seems I should rather do it with R --vanilla... I tried:
| cat xxx.R| R --vanilla --slave > xxx.Rout.save

See 'R CMD BATCH --help' --- you can pass further options along:

edd at ron:/tmp$ echo "cat(4)" > foo.R
edd at ron:/tmp$ R CMD BATCH --vanilla --slave /tmp/foo.R
edd at ron:/tmp$ cat foo.Rout 
4> proc.time()
   user  system elapsed 
  0.352   0.036   0.373 
edd at ron:/tmp$ R CMD BATCH --vanilla /tmp/foo.R
edd at ron:/tmp$ cat foo.Rout 

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> cat(4)
4> 
> proc.time()
   user  system elapsed 
   0.34    0.04    0.38 
edd at ron:/tmp$ 

| But this gives files without the ">", and then it gets reported in the R 
| CMD check... What would be the good way to do?
| 
| Secondly, I always got this error that the R CMD BATCH run in french, 
| but the R CMD check in english. I have been told I should change to 
| language=EN. But how do I do this in Linux? I just added:
| Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL","en_US.UTF8")
| Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE","en_US.UTF8")
| Sys.setlocale("LC_MESSAGES","en_US.UTF8")
| 
| in the .Rprofile... it this right?

Defaults work for me, so I never changed them. Sorry.

-- 
  Regards, Dirk