On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 12:41 AM, Gábor Csárdi wrote:
> I don't think it is specific for testthat. R CMD check sets R_TESTS when it
> runs the tests, so the separate R process it starts can have some special
> startup options.
>
> The problem happens if you start another R process from your R test,
>> A lot of packages have to work around this:
>> https://github.com/search?q=user%3Acran+R_TESTS&type=Code
>
> I wonder if those are mostly there because of cut'n'paste behavior.
It's not something I've ever advocated; I didn't realise there were so
many people unsetting it. (devtools does it for
On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 8:16 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
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> I wonder if those are mostly there because of cut'n'paste behavior.
>
I don't know. What I know is that I have seen it in about 5 of my packages,
and I have also helped about 5 people that were stumbled upon it with their
own packag
On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 8:16 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
[...]
>
> So, to me it's not clear how this could make a difference in Patrick
> case. By disabling this, i.e. Sys.setenv(R_TESTS=""), I don't see
> how it affects running parallel+foreach+doParallel. Maybe because one
> of those packages
>
> I would be curious
> to see what file.path(R.home("share"), "R", "tests-startup.R")
> contains on the system where the problem occurs.
Contents of mine on macOS are the same as on your Ubuntu:
## A custom startup file for tests
## Run as if a system Rprofile, so no packages, no assignments
o
>
> Nevertheless, putting an empty startup.Rs file in tests/testthat fixes the
> testParallel
> package as well.
Works for me as well!
2017-02-07 23:10 GMT+01:00 Gábor Csárdi :
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 8:16 PM, Henrik Bengtsson <
> henrik.bengts...@gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
>
>>
>> So, to me it
On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Gábor Csárdi wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 8:16 PM, Henrik Bengtsson
> wrote:
> [...]
>>
>>
>> So, to me it's not clear how this could make a difference in Patrick
>> case. By disabling this, i.e. Sys.setenv(R_TESTS=""), I don't see
>> how it affects running pa
