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

[mat]

Thanks! But I have then a strange problem:
-running R CMD BATCH will read in english
-running R CMD BATCH --vanilla --slave will read in french!

I guess it comes from the fact that R CMD BATCH reads my .Rprofile 
settings but --vanilla --slave not?

See:

mat at cunix:~/Dropbox/Documents/tsDyn/tsDyn/tests$ echo 
"library(sandwich)" > foo.R
mat at cunix:~/Dropbox/Documents/tsDyn/tsDyn/tests$ R CMD BATCH foo.R
mat at cunix:~/Dropbox/Documents/tsDyn/tsDyn/tests$ cat foo.Rout

R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
[...]
[Previously saved workspace restored]

 > library(sandwich)
Loading required package: zoo
 >
 > proc.time()
user system elapsed
0.630 0.010 0.632
mat at cunix:~/Dropbox/Documents/tsDyn/tsDyn/tests$
mat at cunix:~/Dropbox/Documents/tsDyn/tsDyn/tests$ R CMD BATCH --vanilla 
--slave foo.R
mat at cunix:~/Dropbox/Documents/tsDyn/tsDyn/tests$ cat foo.Rout
Le chargement a nécessité le package : zoo
 > proc.time()
utilisateur système écoulé
0.38 0.02 0.38

So it seems I should change the language differently... probably setting 
the global environment variable? I don't know if this is possible just 
within the R CMD BATCH? I read from ?BATCH

Additional options can be set by the environment variable
‘R_BATCH_OPTIONS’: these come after ‘--restore --save
--no-readline’ and before any options given on the command line

But I did not find any example how to run them...

Thanks!!

Matthieu



Le 03. 07. 10 23:13, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit :
> 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
>
> R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
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>
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>
>    Natural language support but running in an English locale
>
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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.
>
>