[R-pkg-devel] [EXTERN] cran check about examples time

Dear Emanuele,

I checked one of the Notes. One of the examples of get.geotop.inpts.keyword.value that throws a NOTE has parts outside of donttest that seem to load data from an url which can lead to varying execution times depending on the server. Moreover the url seems not to work. (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ecor/geotopbricks_doc/master/simulations/panola13_run2xC_test3)

If you want to load the data from the web, I'd also put this in a donttest section.

An alternative would be (if this makes sense for the example) to include the file in the package and load it with system.file in the examples. This should run faster and more reliable and be independent of changes to URLs outside of the repository. Beware of maximum package sizes though.

(I checked this with the current default branch on github.)

Hope this helps, best regards, Tobias

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Dear list,

I'm submitting the following package. CRAN check were OK (frorr Windows)
whereas in Debian a function example elapses   5.326 seconds.  I need to
fix this. Most lines in the examples are within \donttest{} brackets, so they should not be executed by CRAN checks. The examples are useful to understand the functions, as they are, should I include all examples lines in \donttest{} or \dontrun{} ?
Do you have any suggestion or reference on this? CRAN message attached below.

Thank you
Best
Emanuele Cordano

CRAN message:

Dear maintainer,

package geotopbricks_1.5.9.1.tar.gz does not pass the incoming checks automatically, please see the following pre-tests (additional issue checks):
Windows: <
https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/geotopbricks_1.5.9.1_20250413_174815/Windows/00check.log

Status: OK
Debian: <
https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/geotopbricks_1.5.9.1_20250413_174815/Debian/00check.log

Status: 1 NOTE

Last released version's CRAN status: OK: 9, NOTE: 5
See: <https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_geotopbricks.html>

CRAN Web: <https://cran.r-project.org/package=geotopbricks>

Please fix all problems and resubmit a fixed version via the webform.
If you are not sure how to fix the problems shown, please ask for help on the R-package-devel mailing list:
<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel>
If you are fairly certain the rejection is a false positive, please reply-all to this message and explain.

More details are given in the directory:
<
https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/geotopbricks_1.5.9.1_20250413_174815/

The files will be removed after roughly 7 days.

No strong reverse dependencies to be checked.

Best regards,
CRAN teams' auto-check service
Flavor: r-devel-windows-x86_64
Check: *, Result: OK


Flavor: r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
Check: examples, Result: NOTE
   Examples with CPU (user + system) or elapsed time > 5s
                                   user system elapsed
   get.geotop.inpts.keyword.value 1.406  0.027   5.326

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