On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 9:01 AM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: [...] > > I think it's useful to think of 3 groups who might run tests: > > - authors > - CRAN > - other users of a package. > > What Hadley was arguing for is that CRAN should identify itself to a > package, so that by default a package could run different tests for > CRAN than for other users. I am arguing that they should run the same > tests by default.
When are users running tests for packages at all? The tests are by default no even installed with the package. The only time I usually do this is when running reverse dependency checks. In this specific case I can easily set ON_CRAN as well, if I want to replicate the CRAN tests. Or, maybe even better, I don't set it, and run the extended test suite to potentially catch more breakage. > Clearly authors might want more extensive tests like the ones you mention. > > I think it would be a good thing if a standard method evolved for others > to ask for those tests as well. If they don't set ON_CRAN (which they already don't), then they get the extended test suite by default. Gabor > That suggestion was made and support > for it was added to R back in 2014. So far standardization hasn't > happened, which could indicate that it isn't really needed, or just that > nobody has bothered to push for it. > > Duncan Murdoch > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
