[Rd] testing dontrun examples

Spencer Graves
Wed, 26 Nov 2014 19:09:52 -0000

Hi, Paul:


       "if(!fda::CRAN())" runs code except with "R CMD check
?as-cran".
I use it so CRAN checks skip examples that (a) need the Internet or (b)
take too long for CRAN.


        Hope this helps.


       Spencer


On 11/26/2014 10:45 AM, Paul Gilbert 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
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
>
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