So an average example takes 30secs? I don't think your users are going to be too happy with that, whereas 100Mb is no problem these days (quite a few package tests get there).

I would suggest putting the examples in \dontrun, and putting a selection in a test suite or a vignette, with an optional test to run them all.

As a guide, in my tests I allow a maximum of 5 minutes CPU for an R run
(and only one package hits the limits).  Also take a look at

http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/checkTimings.html

where only 5 packages take more than 5 minutes for R CMD check, and the average is around a minute. So you should be aiming well under 5 mins for
R CMD check.


On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Peter E. Rossi wrote:

Folks-

I have developed a package which I am planning on posting to CRAN.

I include examples for each of the 40 or so functions in the package.
However, since the examples are non-trivial and the package is
using MCMC simulation methods, it takes about 20 minutes to run the complete
set of examples on a 2.8 Ghz windows PC. The R process reaches a high
water mark of about 100 MB of memory as well.

I would appreciate some guidance on this.

many thanks!

peter
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