Message-ID: <CABtg=KkYMzouNH9-pmvjd4pSpjWMS7RhE8BwEZ4TwDGdhdmdyA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2018-09-07T12:08:25Z
From: Gábor Csárdi
Subject: [R-pkg-devel] Submission to CRAN when package needs personal data (API key)
In-Reply-To: <23442.24845.415569.929289@rob.eddelbuettel.com>
On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 12:29 PM Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
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>
> On 7 September 2018 at 09:27, G?bor Cs?rdi wrote:
> | When are users running tests for packages at all? The tests are by default
> | no even installed with the package. The only time I usually do this is when
>
> Which some people consider to be the wrong decision by testthat.
How is testthat related to this? When you `R CMD INSTALL` a package,
AFAICT it does not install the test by default. Independently of what
testsuite you use.
> Base R has a set of functions
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> tools::testInstalledBasic
> tools::testInstalledPackage
> tools::testInstalledPackages
>
> so that an _installed_ package can be tested. Unless, of course, it uses
> testthat. Matt Dowle just run into this (per a question on StackOverflow).
> RUnit, on the other hand, supports this.
I am probably missing sg, but is this expected to run the Rcpp test suite?
tools::testInstalledPackage("Rcpp", types = "tests")
Because it takes 1ms to run and has no output.
Gabor
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