On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Paul Gilbert <pgilbert...@gmail.com> 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 > I agree that would be nice to have. My solution was just to have a private function (pkg:::run_examples()) that runs all the examples. It has to be manually updated when adding a new example however. The devtools solution has not always worked for me when there are external dependencies (like internet download, etc.) THK > > Suggestions? > > Thanks, > Paul > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- http://www.keittlab.org/ [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
