[R-pkg-devel] Windows tests for CRAN submission
On 10.05.2017 07:58, Shivaram Venkataraman wrote:
Hi I'm a first time package submitter to CRAN and have a question on how to handle unit tests on Windows. The SparkR [1] package [2] file that we are trying to submit passes "R CMD check --as-cran" with no errors on both Linux and OS X. On Windows, the package builds successfully but requires additional binaries [3] to be installed in order for the unit tests to run. While we have a automated test runner that installs the binaries and runs tests on every commit [4] on AppVeyor, when "R CMD check --as-cran" is run on winbuilder, the tests fail. Given this situation, is it possible to specify in our CRAN submission that the package should only be tested on Unix machines ? Or is it recommended that we include scripts to install the additional binaries during a CRAN check on winbuilder ?
Tell me and if the requirements are reasonable and easy to install I'll consider to install them. Best, Uwe Ligges
Thanks for your help and please let me know if any further details about the package will help in resolving this. Thanks Shivaram [1] https://github.com/apache/spark/tree/master/R [2] http://people.apache.org/~pwendell/spark-releases/spark-2.1.1-rc4-bin/SparkR_2.1.1.tar.gz [3] https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/R/WINDOWS.md#unit-tests [4] https://ci.appveyor.com/project/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/spark/history [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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