Re: How to sneak in Test-Depends like r-cran-testthat into automated testing for BioC packages
Hi Dirk,
On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 08:08:38AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> Earlier today I tried to look this up in the manuals because I thought it was
> stated explicitly, but did not find it the R Manuals or CRAN Repository
> Policy -- yet I am fairly certain "common" CI environments (as used by many
> CRAN package authors, most commonly at GitHub, but also services like
> win-builder and rhub) automatically inject the test packages because, well,
> running a test requires it yet these are not typically added to Suggests.
>
> So adding
> r-cran-runit
> r-cran-testthat
> r-cran-tinytest
> should cover all cases. Think of it as addition to Suggests: just how we do
> not have list the base packages stats, utils, ... and so on.
When reading this I'm wondering whether this is the same with RUnit as
with testthat as I wrote in my other mail where RUnit is missing *despite*
it is mentioned in Test-Depends.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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