From ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk  Tue Dec 11 18:38:47 2001
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian D Ripley)
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 18:38:47 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
Subject: [Rd] windows testing
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On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> 1. Tried running "test-all-extras" today.  It failed comparison on the
> last of the regression tests, "reg-plot".  As far as I could tell, the
> output looked okay.  The differences were in reported values of the
> relative range of values, as in
>
> >> for(j.fac in 1e-12* c(10, 1, .7, .3, .2, .1, .05, .03, .01)) {
> >+ ##           ====
> >+     #set.seed(101) # or don't
> >+     x <- pi + jitter(numeric(101), f = j.fac)
> >+     rrtxt <- paste("rel.range =", formatC(relrange(x), dig = 4),"* EPS")
> >+     cat("j.f = ", format(j.fac)," ;  ", rrtxt,"\n",sep="")
> >+     plot(x, type = "l", main = rrtxt)
> >+     cat("par(\"usr\")[3:4]:", formatC(par("usr")[3:4], wid = 10),"\n",
> >+         "par(\"yaxp\") :   ", formatC(par("yaxp"), wid = 10),"\n\n", sep="")
> >+ }
> >j.f = 1e-11 ;  rel.range = 553.9 * EPS
> >par("usr")[3:4]:     3.142     3.142
> >par("yaxp") :        3.142     3.142         3
> >
> >j.f = 1e-12 ;  rel.range = 56.02 * EPS
> >Warning: relative range of values = 85.307 * EPS, is small (axis 2).
> >par("usr")[3:4]:     3.142     3.142
> >par("yaxp") :        3.142     3.142
>
> and some warnings about character widths:
>
> >Warning: font width unknown for character 144
> >Warning: font metrics unknown for character 144
> >Warning: font width unknown for character 144
> >Warning: font width unknown for character 157
> >Warning: font metrics unknown for character 157
> >Warning: font width unknown for character 157

Yes, all normal.

>
> 2.  In test-Internet, the file comparisons were different (in what
> looked like trivial ways: the directory and list from CRAN was
> different).  The test produced a file "internet.Rout2" that had no
> corresponding .save file.

The save output is out of date (as it commonly is). There is no
save file for internet.Rout2: that it runs is enough.

> Duncan
>
>
>
>

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[Rd] windows testing
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