On 9/4/12 3:58 PM, "Duncan Murdoch" <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 04/09/2012 3:44 PM, Terry Therneau wrote: >>ly in >> On 09/04/2012 01:57 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> > On 04/09/2012 2:36 PM, Warnes, Gregory wrote: >> >> On 9/4/12 8:38 AM, "Duncan Murdoch" <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >On 04/09/2012 8:20 AM, Terry Therneau wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> On 09/04/2012 05:00 AM, M >><mailto:r-devel-requ...@r-project.org>artin wrote: >> >> >> > The issue is not just about "CRAN" vs "off CRAN". >> >> >> > It is good to think about a more general scheme of >> >> >> > "light testing" vs "normal testing" vs "extensive testing", >> >> >> > e.g., for the situation where the package implements >> >> >> > (simulation/bootstrap/ ..) based inference, and the developer >> >> >> > (but not only) should be able to run the extensive tests. >> >> >> > >> >> >> > Martin >> >> >> >> >> >> I agree with Martin. A mechanism to specify testing level would >>be the >> >> >> best. Then CRAN can choose to set that variable to "3" say, with >>level >> >> >> 1 for extensive and 2 for usual. >>>> >> >> >>[snip] >The testingLevel() function is supposed to be a way to know that a >certain level of testing is being done, to allow such tailoring. >However, I don't think it's practical. I think you can ask whether a >specific test is being run (my "D" %in% tests() example), but you can't >reasonably convert the set of tests chosen by a tester into a single >number. > >What I think you and Greg are talking about is something different. You >are asking that we set up more suites of tests, corresponding to >numerical levels. Currently we have two suites: the default, and the >--as-cran suite. But we also have completely customized suites, set by >users who want to check specific things. They can do that the way you >do (by calling the tests explicitly), or by setting environment >variables (as described in the Tools chapter of the R Internals manual). No! We're not asking for the r-core to create more test suites, or even to do anything different based on the test intensity level. We're just asking for a standard way to control the intensity of the tests *we* write to prevent us from duplicating this functionality in our own packages, probably in incompatible ways. -Greg ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
