On Thu, 18 May 2006, Paul Gilbert wrote:
> I think the more usual way to solve this is to have the user set
> par(ask=TRUE) is they want to be prompted. This gives the user the option of
> being prompted, or not. It makes the example tests work, and simplifies your
> code because you don't need to worry about the prompt mechanism. It also
> potentially helps with multi-language support, etc, etc.
And in R-devel example() has an 'ask' argument that has a sensible
default which sets par(ask=TRUE) when it looks like an interactive
session.
>
> Paul
>
> Lutz Prechelt wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> trying to prepare my first package for submission to CRAN I am stumbling
>> over the "checking examples" step
>> of R CMD check.
>>
>> I have some examples that produce more than one plot.
>> I currently separate those plot calls by
>> readline("Press <Return> for a plot including a density plot")
>> or some such to have R wait before producing the next plot.
>>
>> This works OK for end users, but fails miserably during R CMD check, which
>> appears to just eat the
>> next line of the example source file for the input of readline
>> (which took me quite a while to understand it).
>>
>> What is the right way to solve this problem?
>>
>> I can hardly believe that there is none (although the
>> examples of 'plot' suggest exactly this: They run through multiple plots in
>> a hurry.)
>>
>> I guess the appropriate approach would be if
>> example() had some kind of single-stepping option?
>>
>> Any hints?
>>
>> Lutz Prechelt
>>
>> P.S.: Documentation remark:
>> For users struggling with R CMD check it might be
>> very helpful if R-exts.pdf contained some pointers
>> to the functions or mechanisms used by R CMD check, or the names of source
>> files where to find such information
>> so they can better understand what is going on.
>>
>> Prof. Dr. Lutz Prechelt; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Institut fuer Informatik; Freie Universitaet Berlin
>> Takustr. 9; 14195 Berlin; Germany
>> +49 30 838 75115; http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/inst/ag-se/
>>
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