Re: [R-pkg-devel] checking windows timing?

2020-10-14 Thread Martin Maechler
> Ben Bolker > on Tue, 13 Oct 2020 12:46:11 -0400 writes: >Following up on my questions from yesterday: >I've been advised to (drastically) reduce the checking > time of my package on CRAN's Windows platform (currently > at 23 min). I've gone through and added

Re: [R-pkg-devel] checking windows timing?

2020-10-13 Thread Balasubramanian Narasimhan
FWIW, we dealt with the tests-taking-too-long problem for CVXR (which has a lot of tests) by mercilessly cutting out all tests on CRAN (testthat::skip_on_cran()) except for some fundamental ones on atoms, curvature, etc.  We then rely on Github actions (with NOT_CRAN = true) to run the full tes

[R-pkg-devel] checking windows timing?

2020-10-13 Thread Ben Bolker
Following up on my questions from yesterday: I've been advised to (drastically) reduce the checking time of my package on CRAN's Windows platform (currently at 23 min). I've gone through and added a lot of conditionals to skip tests on CRAN. I could reduce it farther but I'm starting to