I did not really try it, but perhaps setting _R_CHECK_TIMINGS_=false in your ~/.Renviron works? http://cran.rstudio.com/doc/manuals/r-release/R-ints.html#Tools
Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Web: http://yihui.name On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Brian G. Peterson <br...@braverock.com> wrote: > I'm having a very hard time making R CMD check produce a clean check on > examples because of the timings inserted into examples by R CMD check. > > I am getting a difference on every example output caused by timing > information being inserted by 'R CMD check'. > > The current 'Writing R Extensions' manual[1] states on p. 14: > > If directory tests has a subdirectory Examples containing a > file pkg-Ex.Rout.save, this is compared to the output file > for running the examples when the latter are checked. > Reference output should be produced without having the > --timings option set (and note that --as-cran sets it). > > As is suggested above, if I run > > R CMD check --as-cran mypkg.tar.gz > > or > > R CMD check --timings mypkg.tar.gz > > the my.pkg.Rcheck/mypkg-Ex.Rout file contains timing lines inserted by 'R > CMD check' > > If, instead, I follow my reading of the manual, and run > > R CMD check mypkg.tar.gz > > the mypkg.Rcheck/mypkg-Ex.Rout file does not contain timings. If I then > copy the mypkg.Rcheck/mypkg-Ex.Rout file to > > mypkg/tests/Examples/mypkg-Ex.Rout.save > > as described by footnote 17 on the previously referenced p. 14, I would > expect to now have no differences, as demonstrated by 'diff' or 'diff -bw' > as used by 'R CMD check'. > > To my surprise, whether I copy a version of the mypkg-Ex.Rout file with or > without timing rows, I get differences reported for every example by the > (spurious?) insertion of timings by R CMD check. > > e.g. > 8169a8549,8550 >> > base::assign(".dptime", (proc.time() - get(".ptime", pos = >> > "CheckExEnv")), pos = "CheckExEnv") >> > base::cat("textplot", base::get(".format_ptime", pos = >> > 'CheckExEnv')(get(".dptime", pos = "CheckExEnv")), "\n", >> > file=base::get(".ExTimings", pos = 'CheckExEnv'), append=TRUE, sep="\t") > 8175a8557 > > > > Is this expected? > > It is certainly not the behavior we had for many years, where a check of > examples could actually be clean, producing differences only on the 'Time > elapsed:' line, which has been present for many R versions. I have tried > testing against a package with both the timing lines includes and excluded > in /mypkg-Ex.Rout.save, and with R CMD check run without additional options, > with --timings, and with --as-cran. They produce equivalent check files. > on their example checks. > > This behavior is on R 3.1.0, 3.1.1, and R-devel. > > I would assume from the documentation that there should be a way to get a > clean check, without the timing diffs. > > Advice appreciated, > > Brian > > Ref: > [1] http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.pdf > > -- > Brian G. Peterson > http://braverock.com/brian/ > Ph: 773-459-4973 > IM: bgpbraverock > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
