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Facilitate citation of R packages
https://pakillo.github.io/grateful/
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Please do not test citations in other packages (at least not on CRAN) #36

Closed yihui closed 1 year ago

yihui commented 1 year ago

Hi,

When I'm checking the reverse dependencies of knitr, I discovered that grateful had some tests that were too strict, e.g.,

https://github.com/Pakillo/grateful/blob/a0859f7256b21d6aa072b14b31316b55b10373db/tests/testthat/test-get_citations.R#L13 https://github.com/Pakillo/grateful/blob/a0859f7256b21d6aa072b14b31316b55b10373db/tests/testthat/test-utils_citations.R#L57-L88

These tests assume that the citations for knitr would never change, which is not true, e.g., next year knitr2023 will become knitr2024 and the test would be broken, or new books/papers about knitr could be written and there could be more citation entries in https://github.com/yihui/knitr/blob/master/inst/CITATION, etc.

I'll be grateful if these tests are either removed or skipped on CRAN, so that I can freely make changes in knitr's citations in future without breaking grateful's tests. Thank you!

Pakillo commented 1 year ago

Dear Yihui,

Apologies, and thanks for calling my attention to that. Fixed now.

P.S. I use your packages daily and they are fundamental to my work, so I'm forever grateful to you. Thanks

yihui commented 1 year ago

Thank you so much!