[Rd] how to test packages under platforms we don't have?

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Fri Aug 4 16:37:19 CEST 2006


When its on CRAN it will be checked on Windows
with the result here:

http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/checkSummaryWin.html

although I guess you are really looking for some way to do this
yourself.

On 8/4/06, Kevin B. Hendricks <kevin.hendricks at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One final question ... is there an automated build system anyplace
> for package developers and R -developers to make sure their code
> works on all platforms.  I was able to check with Linux, and MacOSX
> (both Intel and PPC) but I do not own a Windows box and was unable to
> test/debug the build in any way on that platform.
>
> On my last project (OpenOffice.org), they used something called
> "tinderbox" to automate the build on all official platforms and post
> results (and build logs and errors/warnings) to a web site that any
> contributors could check to make sure anything they changed or wrote
> did not disrupt any thing else.
>
> The main OpenOffice.org developers made available "child
> workspaces" (typically subsets of the main development tree or even
> the whole tree) that volunteer developers could commit to that had to
> be validated via the "tinderbox" and a test harness before being
> merged back into the tree.  That allowed the volunteers more freedom
> to make changes without ever hurting the tree.  And it gave the core
> developers complete control of when and if, patches and changes from
> outside volunteers ever make it into the tree.
>
> Is there anything like that for R either internally or externally?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
>
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