Hi Jim, Thanks for the info. I disregarded covr in my search results as I thought it would only apply to packages outside base and recommended. The code is pure R code so it might work, but it reads a file so it might involve some C code.
Thanks! Lluís On Mon, 27 Nov 2023 at 20:11, Jim Hester <james.f.hes...@gmail.com> wrote: > It should be possible to use covr to do this, see this old issue > (https://github.com/r-lib/covr/issues/59). However interpreting the > results can prove challenging as naturally covr uses functions > from the base internally. Unfortunately the base and many of the > internal and recommended packages have somewhat bespoke installation, > so it would likely take some additional work on your end to get > reporting working. I had thought of doing this at one point, but > wasn't sure there would be any audience for the results, so did not > pursue it further. > > For measuring coverage of the C code in the R runtime alone you could > use gcov and run the test suite, which depending on your contribution > may be the most informative route. > > (replying for the list, accidentally replied only to Lluís the first time) > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 10:15 AM Lluís Revilla <lluis.revi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I recently proposed a change in R that has led to the addition of new > code > > to the R source code. > > > > The code added, as far as I know, has no tests and it might affect many > > packages in CRAN. > > I was wondering if adding a test would be helpful or it is already > covered > > by some other test. > > Which brought me to the question: what is the coverage of R checks > > (check-devel)? > > > > My searches in the mailing list or other places didn't return anything > > close to it. > > But I am curious if someone has already done this and how. > > > > Many thanks, > > > > Lluís > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel