From spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com  Wed Nov 26 20:09:52 2014
From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves)
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 11:09:52 -0800
Subject: [Rd] testing dontrun  examples
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Hi, Paul:


       "if(!fda::CRAN())" runs code except with "R CMD check ?as-cran".  
I use it so CRAN checks skip examples that (a) need the Internet or (b) 
take too long for CRAN.


        Hope this helps.


       Spencer


On 11/26/2014 10:45 AM, Paul Gilbert wrote:
> Is there a good strategy for testing examples which should not be run 
> by default? For instance, I have examples which get data from the 
> Internet. If I wrap them in try() then they can be skipped if the 
> Internet is not available, but may not be tested in cases when I would 
> like to know about the failure. (Not to mention that the example 
> syntax is ugly.)
>
> If I mark them \dontrun or \donttest then they are not tested. I could 
> mark them \dontrun and then use example() but for this, in addition to 
> run.dontrun=TRUE, I would need to specify all topics for a package, 
> and I don't see how to do this, missing topic does not work.
>
> Wishlist: what I would really like is R CMD check --run-dontrun pkg
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
>
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[Rd] testing dontrun examples
Spencer Graves