Dear R-Help,
When I submit an update to one of my packages, I decided to try to avoid having
to fix errors that sometimes occur in CRAN's reverse-dependency checks by
performing the same checks ahead of time. From what I can tell, the way to do
this is to use
tools::check_packages_in_dir(..., reverse = list(which = "all"), ...)
It does not surprise me that this takes a lot of time! One of my packages has
quite a few reverse suggests, so this process installs all packages that my
package or any of the reverse depends requires, which is about a zillion. But
eventually, this works. I've learned to run this in batch mode so it doesn't
tie up Rgui or RStudio. That's fine; I just have a script that I can run.
I have two questions:
1. While it is installing all those packages, I see a lot of chatter so I can
see what progress is being made, however glacial. But when it gets the the
phase where it checks each of the reverse-dependent packages, it is utterly
silent. It would be really helpful to me if check_packages_in_dir() would just
print a one-line message that it is checking such-and-such package.
2. Is there any way to streamline the checking? It seems to me that since all
the packages are already on CRAN and thus pass most checks, all that we need to
check for reverse dependencies are the examples, vignettes, and tests. This
could save a lot of time.
Thanks
Russ Lenth
U of Iowa, USA
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