tools (version 3.2.0)

check_packages_in_dir: Check Source Packages and Their Reverse Dependencies

Description

Check source packages in a given directory, optionally with their reverse dependencies.

Usage

check_packages_in_dir(dir, check_args = character(), check_args_db = list(), reverse = NULL, check_env = character(), xvfb = FALSE, Ncpus = getOption("Ncpus", 1L), clean = TRUE, ...)
summarize_check_packages_in_dir_results(dir, all = TRUE, full = FALSE)
summarize_check_packages_in_dir_timings(dir, all = FALSE, full = FALSE)
summarize_check_packages_in_dir_depends(dir, all = FALSE, which = c("Depends", "Imports", "LinkingTo"))
check_packages_in_dir_changes(dir, old, outputs = FALSE, sources = FALSE)

Arguments

dir

a character string giving the path to the directory with the source ‘.tar.gz’ files to be checked.

check_args

a character vector with arguments to be passed to R CMD check, or a list of length two of such character vectors to be used for checking packages and reverse dependencies, respectively.

check_args_db

a named list of character vectors with arguments to be passed to R CMD check, with names the respective package names.

reverse

a list with names partially matching "repos", "which", or "recursive", giving the repositories to use for locating reverse dependencies (default: getOption("repos")), the types of reverse dependencies (default: c("Depends", "Imports", "LinkingTo"), with shorthands "most" and "all" as for package_dependencies), and indicating whether to also check reverse dependencies of reverse dependencies and so on (default: FALSE), or NULL (default), in which case no reverse dependencies are checked.

check_env

a character vector of name=value strings to set environment variables for checking, or a list of length two of such character vectors to be used for checking packages and reverse dependencies, respectively.

xvfb

a logical indicating whether to perform checking inside a virtual framebuffer X server (Unix only), or a character vector of Xvfb options for doing so.

Ncpus

the number of parallel processes to use for parallel installation and checking.

clean

a logical indicating whether to remove the downloaded reverse dependency sources.

...

currently not used.

all

a logical indicating whether to also summarize the reverse dependencies checked.

full

a logical indicating whether to also give details for checks with non-ok results, or summarize check example timings (if available).

which

see package_dependencies.

old

a character string giving the path to the directory of a previous check_packages_in_dir run.

outputs

a logical indicating whether to analyze changes in the outputs of the checks performed, or only (default) the status of the checks.

sources

a logical indicating whether to also investigate the changes in the source files checked (default: FALSE).

Details

check_packages_in_dir allows to conveniently check source package ‘.tar.gz’ files in the given directory dir, along with their reverse dependencies as controlled by reverse.

The "which" component of reverse can also be a list, in which case reverse dependencies are obtained for each element of the list and the corresponding element of the "recursive" component of reverse (which is recycled as needed).

If needed, the source ‘.tar.gz’ files of the reverse dependencies to be checked as well are downloaded into dir (and removed at the end if clean is true). Next, all packages (additionally) needed for checking are installed to the ‘Library’ subdirectory of dir. Then, all ‘.tar.gz’ files are checked using the given arguments and environment variables, with outputs and messages to files in the ‘Outputs’ subdirectory of dir. The ‘*.Rcheck’ directories with the check results of the reverse dependencies are renamed by prefixing their base names with rdepends_.

Results and timings can conveniently be summarized using summarize_check_packages_in_dir_results and summarize_check_packages_in_dir_timings, respectively.

Installation and checking is performed in parallel if Ncpus is greater than one: this will use mclapply on Unix and parLapply on Windows.

check_packages_in_dir returns an object inheriting from class "check_packages_in_dir" which has print and summary methods.

check_packages_in_dir_changes allows to analyze the effect of changing (some of) the sources. With dir and old the paths to the directories with the new and old sources, respectively, and the corresponding check results, possible changes in the check results can conveniently be analyzed as controlled via options outputs and sources.

Examples

## Not run: 
# ## Check packages in dir without reverse dependencies:
# check_packages_in_dir(dir)
# ## Check packages in dir and their reverse dependencies using the
# ## defaults (all repositories in getOption("repos"), all "strong"
# ## reverse dependencies, no recursive reverse dependencies):
# check_packages_in_dir(dir, reverse = list())
# ## Check packages in dir with their reverse dependencies from CRAN,
# ## using all strong reverse dependencies and reverse suggests:
# check_packages_in_dir(dir,
#                       reverse = list(repos = getOption("repos")["CRAN"],
#                                      which = "most"))                   
# ## Check packages in dir with their reverse dependencies from CRAN,
# ## using '--as-cran' for the former but not the latter:
# check_packages_in_dir(dir,
#                       check_args = c("--as-cran", ""),
#                       reverse = list(repos = getOption("repos")["CRAN"]))
# ## End(Not run)