On 26/11/2014, 1:45 PM, 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
We have that in R-devel, so everyone will have it next April, but there will possibly be bugs unless people like you try it out now. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
