[R-pkg-devel] CRAN pretest: Overall checktime 14 min > 10 min

Mon, May 21, 2018 9:20 AM

Well, on incoming, we only check on two systems and the Windows timings 
will be reported in the message you receive, you can also see them when 
using the winbuilder service.

For some of the other OS/ R flavors, you can see them after they are 
published on CRAN on the check summary pagesa on CRAN, e.g. for 
Rnightlights:

https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_Rnightlights.html

Noet that Windows typically takes much longer as some parts of the 
checks are performed for 32-bit and 64-bit.

Best,
Uwe Ligges

On 21.05.2018 18:16, Chris Njuguna wrote:

Thanks Uwe,

I think the timeouts are helpful also in encouraging better coding 
practices. I will try to limit my tests as described by Dirk especially 
since I am planning to increase my code test coverage. Is it possible to 
get the test timing breakdowns for each flavor?

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On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 6:46 PM, Uwe Ligges 
<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de 
<mailto:ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>> wrote:

    In addition to what Dirk said, I just added this experimental test
    for CRAN incoming checks few days ago and it should not reject but
    lead to manual inspection, this will be fixed on CRAN side shortly.

    Nevertheless: The idea is that we have timeouts for checking a
    package and we want to be alerted of future timeout problems in
    advance when a package is submitted.

    Best,
    Uwe Ligges



    On 21.05.2018 14:06, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:


        I can't speak to the recent increase on Windows. It may be load;
        it may be
        related to R 3.5.0 --- but I'd even whittle things down from 5+
        minutes.? At
        one point in the past we were told to aim for 1 minute, give or
        take.

        So e.g. Rcpp has been using a scheme for _many_ years where I
        take a cue from
        the DESCRIPTION file. The rule I like (for my packages) is that
        versions like

         ? ?1.2.3.1

        are "development" so I do a full test.? Whereas versions like

         ? ?1.2.4

        are "release" -- so when I only see three components, I set a
        variable. And
        the unit tests file can then use that variable to skip tests. 
        This gives me
        fine-grained control: lighter-weight tests can still run in both
        cases. Hence
        shorter test time for release uploads at CRAN; yet I still get
        full tests at
        win-builder when I send a development version.

        Dirk

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