From tlumley at u.washington.edu  Fri Apr  7 23:33:16 2006
From: tlumley at u.washington.edu (Thomas Lumley)
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 14:33:16 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Rd] Should demo files be run as part of R CMD check?
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On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, hadley wickham wrote:

> I was a bit suprised to note that demo files are not run as part of R
> CMD check.  This seems out of keeping with the philosophy of running
> all code contained in the package (in the source, in examples etc).
>
> Should demo files be checked as part of R CMD check?
>


The rationale may be that a demo is entitled to assume it is being run 
interactively.  Checking demo(tkdensity), for example, would be 
unproductive.


 	-thomas



[Rd] Should demo files be run as part of R CMD check?
Thomas Lumley