[GenABEL-dev] Why is doRUnit.R removed from the final package?

[Yury Aulchenko]

I really meant "address" - show the way to.., :)

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> On 20 Jun 2014, at 14:13, L.C. Karssen <lennart at karssen.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Yurii,
> 
> I see Andreas already contacted you before I noticed his commit.
> 
> 
>> On 20-06-14 12:25, Yury Aulchenko wrote:
>> because CRAN requested NOT to include unit tests into distrib - my
>> unerstanding was that it takes to long + tests are not stable; again,
>> for the latter my understanding was that it is not specifically GenABEL,
>> it is something general
> 
> I quickly checked a few packages on CRAN and I'm not sure about what the
> results mean:
> - Rcpp: has doRunit.R
> - MASS: has tests, but no doRUnit.R (maybe not using RUnit?)
> - ggplot2: has tests, but no doRUnit.R (maybe not using RUnit?)
> - HMisc: has tests, but no doRUnit.R (maybe not using RUnit?)
> 
> As far as I can see the "Writing R Extensions" manual doesn't mention
> anything about doRUnit.R specifically.
> 
> 
>> 
>> Lennart, so you think we should address Andreas to our SVN?
> 
> I guess you meant "add" instead of "address"? If so, then no, that
> wasn't my idea. Andreas is one of the main forces behind the Debian Med
> team, which focusses on making Debian packages for Medical/Life Sciences
> software. I don't think he is interested in participating in the
> development of GenABEL specifically (but we could ask).
> 
> 
> Lennart.
> 
>> 
>> Yurii
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jun 20, 2014, at 12:18, L.C. Karssen <lennart at karssen.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Dear list,
>>> 
>>> I just noticed a commit in the Debian packaging system for the Debian
>>> package of GenABEL (r-cran-genabel) [1]. The packager (Andreas Tille)
>>> wrote in the log that a file is missing (tests/doRUnit.R). It turns out
>>> that this file is removed in our makedistrib_GenABEL.sh script [2]. Does
>>> anyone remember why this is done?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Lennart.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-med?view=revision&revision=17252
>>> [2]
>>> https://r-forge.r-project.org/scm/viewvc.php/pkg/GenABEL-general/distrib_scripts/makedistrib_GenABEL.sh?view=markup&revision=1684&root=genabel
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