Re: [R-pkg-devel] Run-times of examples in vignettes

2020-10-27 Thread Thierry Onkelinx
My solution is similar to Ben's solution. Except that the code for creating the data is in the vignette. The chunk only runs when the data is not available. The trick is to pass code to the eval argument instead of a fixed TRUE or FALSE. See https://github.com/ropensci/git2rdata/blob/bad8a4cf42049f

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Run-times of examples in vignettes

2020-10-27 Thread Ben Bolker
My general solution is to run time-consuming computations in advance and store the results in (e.g.) inst/vignette_data, whence they can be retrieved via system.file("vignette_data", "output.rda", package="my_pkg"). (I might also include the R script required to generate the file so that I

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Run-times of examples in vignettes

2020-10-27 Thread Helmut Schütz
Hi Dirk, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote on 2020-10-27 13:32: | is there somewhere an official statement about the maximum run-times of | examples in vignettes? Seven minutes is excessive. Sure. The one vignette contains simulation code which needs 1E5 to 1E6 sims to get a stable result. Fewer sims

[R-pkg-devel] How to set an environment variable during package installation?

2020-10-27 Thread Akshit Achara
Hi everyone, I have created an R package which depends on a third party library. I need to set an environment variable whose value will be the argument provided by the user during the package installation. Is there any way I can set the environment variable using autotools? Thanks, Akshit Achara

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Run-times of examples in vignettes

2020-10-27 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 27 October 2020 at 12:21, Helmut Schütz wrote: | is there somewhere an official statement about the maximum run-times of | examples in vignettes? Seven minutes is excessive. I have (long) gone by the rule of "about one minute" each for tests and examples. Rcpp is slightly above [1], especial

[R-pkg-devel] Run-times of examples in vignettes

2020-10-27 Thread Helmut Schütz
Dear all, is there somewhere an official statement about the maximum run-times of examples in vignettes? Currently I got for our seven vignettes on my six-years old machine 7.9 minutes. One of them (containing a lot of simulation code) take 7.1 minutes. Hence, in the submission we asked for

Re: [R-pkg-devel] details of CRAN's r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang

2020-10-27 Thread Jan Gorecki
Thanks to Kurt Hornik for confirming that following should be sufficient. export _R_S3_METHOD_LOOKUP_BASEENV_AFTER_GLOBALENV_=false export _R_S3_METHOD_LOOKUP_REPORT_SEARCH_PATH_USES_=true I did more tests and found out that for the issue to manifest I had to install xts, rather than just zoo (whi