On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Thomas Lumley wrote: > 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.
Also, it is easy for a package author to arrange to check the demos by a test in the package's tests directory. The non-interactive demos in the R tarball are checked via 'make check-devel'. Had we been starting for now, we would use the 'tests' mechanism, but on Unix-alikes the standard packages are installed and checked in different ways from contributed ones. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
