[codeface] R package updates causing tests to fail
- From: Mitchell Joblin <joblin.m@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: codeface@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 15:40:40 +0100
Hi all,
It is sometimes the case that updates to R packages will break the code and
the tests. Often, one does not realize this for some extended period of
time, especially since reinstalling Codeface is not a daily process. The
problem is that when new people come to Codeface and perform the
installation the code will fail and then they might just give up, meanwhile
all the other developers using Codeface don't see any issue.
To deal with this problem we could perform a full re-installation of
Codeface once a day on the test server before running the automated tests.
If this is not possible for all dependencies we could do it at least for R
dependencies, which anyway seems to be most problematic.
Kind regards,
Mitchell
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