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[#1672] Check logs

Date:
2011-11-24 12:20
Priority:
3
State:
Closed
Submitted by:
Renaud Gaujoux (renaud)
Assigned to:
Nobody (None)
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All
Operating System:
All
Severity:
normal
URL:
https://r-forge.r-project.org/R/?group_id=649
Summary:
Check logs

Detailed description
Hi,

it seems that there never are any check logs, at least for my packages and some others I looked at.
Is this a normal behaviour?
It looks like the build logs are only present during the the day following a change, is the same thing happening with the check logs?

I think that having check logs on all platform is mainly what package developers are interested in when hosting the packages in R-forge (besides the other very useful services obviously). So I am tempted to think the issue is on my side, maybe there is a configuration I overlooked. But I remember having seen some check logs sometimes so...

It would be nice to permanently keep the last generated logs (both build and check), and to check a package. Check and build only needs to be done after a change, as it is done now, but the logs should be kept available.
Moreover, a check could be done even if the package does not build. It is possible that a package does not build due to an error in the vignette, which could possibly be easier to debug thanks to the checks. In anycase, in a development pipeline, R CMD check is run before R CMD build. Maybe this is how it is done, but without the logs I cannot see what is going on.

Thank you.

Bests,
Renaud

Comments:

Message  ↓
Date: 2011-11-28 11:03
Sender: Renaud Gaujoux

Do you mean that R CMD check is not run at all?

If only R CMD built is run, would it be possible to keep the latest build log, specially when an error occurs?

Thank you

Date: 2011-11-28 10:43
Sender: Stefan Theussl

Dear Renaud,

it is true that check logs are hardly produced these days. The reason is simple: there are no resources in doing so, be it computational or human. This is still an ongoing discussion. I know this has been around for some time now, but the mills grind slowly. I.e., there is no fault on your end.

Regarding R CMD check without having a package built: such an implementation is quite inefficient since uncompressed package sources have to be moved around. Of course, there are other ways to distribute the sources on the check machines but again, without a decision in the discussion mentioned above we won't change the current system.

I'll keep this inquiry open so that other people interested in these issues will find it more easily.

Best,
Stefan

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