 the testing of the
target package also on remote runners.</p>
<p>The problem with those remote runners is that, to the authors humble
knowledge, it is not possible to source the settings.R file from a
user-defined location, as the necessary system variable
(<code><a href="https://rdrr.io/r/base/Sys.getenv.html" class="external-link">Sys.getenv()</a></code>) pointing to this user-defined location can
not be set.</p>
<p>Therefore a set of functions is introduced to source the settings.R
file from the <strong