Hi Paul, On 9/12/19 11:47, Paul Shannon wrote: > My package igvR requires a web browser. Unit tests, examples, vignette all > will all fail if one is not available. > > Since the bioc build system, for good reason, does not provide a web browser, > I’d like to condition all browser-related code on “not executing in the bioc > build system”.
AFAIK the build machines have web browsers. Anyway if for some reason you need to disable the code that relies on a web browser, wouldn't it make more sense to condition this code on the presence of a web browser? Cheers, H. > > Is there a way my test and example code can detect that? > > I prefer not to condition on > > if(interactive()) > > because in some settings (travis CI, my own development setup) > non-interactive tests, using a possibly headless browser, do make sense. > > Thank you - > > - Paul > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__stat.ethz.ch_mailman_listinfo_bioc-2Ddevel&d=DwIFaQ&c=eRAMFD45gAfqt84VtBcfhQ&r=BK7q3XeAvimeWdGbWY_wJYbW0WYiZvSXAJJKaaPhzWA&m=iEEUVO5v2amEngLM9wKOPLZ90l4CAu3luSqTBk10vwY&s=KvWmn10aFYkg7GYHvM-0QjJkquiJirXMWLSQtYlj0u0&e= > -- Hervé Pagès Program in Computational Biology Division of Public Health Sciences Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 1100 Fairview Ave. N, M1-B514 P.O. Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109-1024 E-mail: hpa...@fredhutch.org Phone: (206) 667-5791 Fax: (206) 667-1319 _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
