Hm, up to now my AzureR packages haven't met with any issues, and they are
basically API wrappers.
I did have one reviewer ask for runnable examples when I submitted one package,
but replying and pointing out the issues you mention cleared things up. I did
cc Uwe Ligges in the reply, who approved the other packages in the first place
-- the other reviewer probably just wasn't aware that I'd cleared things with
Uwe previously.
-----Original Message-----
From: R-package-devel <r-package-devel-boun...@r-project.org> On Behalf Of Jim
Hester
Sent: Wednesday, 2 October 2019 3:37 AM
To: R Package Development <r-package-devel@r-project.org>
Subject: [R-pkg-devel] CRAN policies with regards to runnable examples
CRAN reviewers have somewhat recently been requesting that new submissions have
runnable examples. This is in general a good recommendation, but the reviewers
seem to apply this policy unconditionally, and there are certain classes of
packages where this is either extremely cumbersome or impossible to do.
Two in particular are packages which wrap web APIs and packages containing
shiny applications. Even the most robust APIs will inevitably have network
failures, causing spurious failures on CRAN's machines, and often the APIs
require credentials to access, which won't be available on the build machines.
Shiny applications block the R process and require user interaction in a
browser to function, they cannot really be run non-interactively.
In these cases it seems appropriate to put examples in a `\dontrun{}` or
`\donttest{}` block, and this is what is suggested by writing R extensions.
However CRAN reviewers have refused to accept packages taking this approach.
If these workarounds are not acceptable what _does_ CRAN want package authors
to do in these cases?
Jim
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