Hi I'm a first time package submitter to CRAN and have a question on how to handle unit tests on Windows. The SparkR [1] package [2] file that we are trying to submit passes "R CMD check --as-cran" with no errors on both Linux and OS X.
On Windows, the package builds successfully but requires additional binaries [3] to be installed in order for the unit tests to run. While we have a automated test runner that installs the binaries and runs tests on every commit [4] on AppVeyor, when "R CMD check --as-cran" is run on winbuilder, the tests fail. Given this situation, is it possible to specify in our CRAN submission that the package should only be tested on Unix machines ? Or is it recommended that we include scripts to install the additional binaries during a CRAN check on winbuilder ? Thanks for your help and please let me know if any further details about the package will help in resolving this. Thanks Shivaram [1] https://github.com/apache/spark/tree/master/R [2] http://people.apache.org/~pwendell/spark-releases/spark-2.1.1-rc4-bin/SparkR_2.1.1.tar.gz [3] https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/R/WINDOWS.md#unit-tests [4] https://ci.appveyor.com/project/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/spark/history [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
