R help - Jan 2002 - Validating R after it has been installed!

Hello All,

Just wondering if anyone may have a quick fix to our dilemma here.

I work for a company called HGS (Human Genome Sciences), we are in the
pharmaceutical business.  Everything we do has to be tested and re-tested
to ensure we are providing the most accurate form of data.  On top of that
everything is validated and regulated by FDA.  What this means is every
application on a validated server has to be tested in a test environment
then installed into the production environment at which it has to be
re-tested.

While compiling R (Any version) you run configure, make test, and then make
install.  After which you are done.  I am wondering if there is a way we
can run the "make test" part again on what was just installed.  If I
understand the process correctly when you initially run "make test"
you are
testing R in the test area and not the install directory.  Is it something
as simple as changing the BASEDIR in the makefile or is it a bit more
complicated.


Thanks in advance for your HELP!



Leslie

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Leslie_Branch at hgsi.com writes:
> While compiling R (Any version) you run configure, make test, and then make
> install.  After which you are done.  I am wondering if there is a way we
> can run the "make test" part again on what was just installed. 
If I
> understand the process correctly when you initially run "make
test" you are
> testing R in the test area and not the install directory.  Is it something
> as simple as changing the BASEDIR in the makefile or is it a bit more
> complicated.
Installation is almost exclusively a copying operation, so
it is unlikely that installation would break the kind of thing
that "make test" checks for, but you could change the definition of $R
in the makefiles inside tests/ and tests/Examples. 

Alternatively, you can skip the installation step and run R out of the
build directory (ln -sf path/to/RBUILD/bin/R /usr/local/bin). 

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Just a thought: presumably the test routine works by running a series of
calculations on known data, then comparing the results of these
calculations to the known-correct results. There's no reason you
couldn't
produce such a test suite, tuned specifically for the analyses you do, and
run it yourself.

Hope this helps-
ap

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On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 Leslie_Branch at hgsi.com wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> Just wondering if anyone may have a quick fix to our dilemma here.
> 
> I work for a company called HGS (Human Genome Sciences), we are in the
> pharmaceutical business.  Everything we do has to be tested and re-tested
> to ensure we are providing the most accurate form of data.  On top of that
> everything is validated and regulated by FDA.  What this means is every
> application on a validated server has to be tested in a test environment
> then installed into the production environment at which it has to be
> re-tested.
> 
> While compiling R (Any version) you run configure, make test, and then make
> install.  After which you are done.  I am wondering if there is a way we
> can run the "make test" part again on what was just installed. 
If I
> understand the process correctly when you initially run "make
test" you are
> testing R in the test area and not the install directory.  Is it something
> as simple as changing the BASEDIR in the makefile or is it a bit more
> complicated.
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance for your HELP!
> 
> 
> 
> Leslie
> 
>
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