From murdoch.duncan at gmail.com  Wed Sep  5 08:11:23 2012
From: murdoch.duncan at gmail.com (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 02:11:23 -0400
Subject: [Rd] if(--as-cran)?
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On 12-09-04 8:19 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 04/09/2012 5:42 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>>>
>>> On 4 September 2012 at 17:26, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>> | On 04/09/2012 5:14 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>>> | > An add-on argument to the already established option --as-cran may be
>>> the
>>> | > best.
>>> | >
>>> | > And to iterate, what bugs me is that for _me_ on _my_ machine
>>> developing _my_
>>> | > package I have remember how to enable what is now (as per CRAN's
>>> decree)
>>> | > "non-standard behaviour" of full testing.  I fully agree with what
>>> Terry had
>>> | > said: more tests are better (when we develop).  I want the full suite
>>> at my
>>> | > end; that is after all why we wrote it!
>>> |
>>> | You don't have to remember that, you need to figure it out once, write a
>>> | script that sets the environment variables that enable it, and then you
>>> | can forget it.
>>>
>>> "In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not."
>>>
>>> The main test script long had exactly such a setting; I wrote what I wrote
>>> because it is _still the wrong way around_ and as I happen to have added
>>> to
>>> unit tests this weekend _having suffered through precisely this setting_.
>>>
>>> But we are on different wavelengths here and I evidently do not get my
>>> point
>>> across to you.  And as you are the one who could make a change where it
>>> matters, I have no choice but to rest my case in frustration.
>>
>>
>> If you want to give up, then give up, but then don't complain about the
>> current behaviour.  If you want to fix it, then continue the discussion.
>>
>> You're right that we're on different wavelengths.  If you want some tests to
>> run at home but not on CRAN, then somewhere there has to be a conditional.
>> I'm suggesting that the conditional should be "if there's a tight time
>> limit, skip this".
>>
>> I don't remember if this was your suggestion, but someone has suggested "if
>> we're running with the --as-cran option, skip this" and others have
>> suggested "if we're running on CRAN, skip this".   I don't see why you find
>> my suggestion so objectionable.  If you want, I'll repeat why I find the
>> other two suggestions objectionable.
>
> I agree with Duncan that having an option long/short makes more sense
> than with/without cran, as long as cran sets that option to be short.
 >
> I would also prefer a command line switch to R CMD check to an
> environment variable, but I'll be very happy with a standardized
> environment variable.

I honestly don't see the need for a standardized variable.  I've told 
you how to detect that you are running --as-cran; if that isn't 
sufficient information, then you, the package author, need to set up 
something more elaborate, and assume that if it's not set up, then 
someone else (maybe CRAN) is running the test.

I asked the CRAN powers-that-be about the possibility of querying the 
amount of time remaining before a timeout; since the different platforms 
all use different mechanisms to enforce a timeout, that's not really 
practical.  So the best you could hope for is to know that a timeout is 
in effect.  Before I wrote any code, I'd need to hear why --as-cran 
detection isn't sufficient.

Duncan Murdoch


>
> Kasper
>
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
>>
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[Rd] if(--as-cran)?
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