408: skip problematic tests on R-devel non-standard clang linux systems (#415)

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* remove --as-cran from Rstudio project options

* start with skipping helpers

* rename accordingly

* review and add comments

* make existing skip on CRAN more specific

* additional new skippings based on cran check results

* one more

* polish news, bump up version

* [skip actions] Restyle files

* trigger checks

* move skipping code to package so we can use it in vignette

* update collate

* [skip actions] Restyle files

* prefix with mmrm in vignette because not exported

* use expect_equal for rank deficient ST test

* higher tolerance for residual tests

* skip 2 tests conditionally

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Co-authored-by: github-actions <41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: danielinteractive

DESCRIPTION

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Type: Package
 Package: mmrm
 Title: Mixed Models for Repeated Measures
-Version: 0.3.7.9010
+Version: 0.3.8
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Daniel", "Sabanes Bove", , "daniel.sabanes_bove@roche.com", role = c("aut", "cre")),
     person("Julia", "Dedic", , "julia.dedic@roche.com", role = "aut"),
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ Collate:
     'utils-nse.R'
     'utils-formula.R'
     'satterthwaite.R'
+    'skipping.R'
     'tidiers.R'
     'testing.R'
     'tmb-methods.R'

NEWS.md

@@ -1,24 +1,22 @@
-# mmrm 0.3.7.9010
+# mmrm 0.3.8
 
 ### New Features
 
 - `Anova` is implemented for `mmrm` models and available upon loading the `car` package. It supports type II and III hypothesis testing.
-- The argument `start` for `mmrm_control()` is updated to allow function/numeric input for better
-choices of initial values.
+- The argument `start` for `mmrm_control()` is updated to allow better choices of initial values.
 - `confint` on `mmrm` models will give t-based confidence intervals now, instead of the normal approximation.  
 
-### Miscellaneous
+### Bug Fixes
 
-- In documentation of `mmrm_control()`, the allowed vcov definition is corrected to "Empirical-Jackknife" (CR3), and "Empirical-Bias-Reduced" (CR2).
-- Fix a compiler warning related to missing format specification in error message function call.
-- If an empty contrast matrix is provided to `df_md`, it will return statistics with `NA` values.
+- Previously if the first optimizer failed, the best successful fit among the remaining optimizers was not returned correctly. This is fixed now.
 
-### Bug Fixes
+### Miscellaneous
 
-- Previously if the first optimizer fails, the best successful fit among the rest optimizer
-will be returned. However the index of it was incorrect, and this issue is fixed now.
+- In documentation of `mmrm_control()`, the allowed `vcov` definition is corrected to "Empirical-Jackknife" (CR3), and "Empirical-Bias-Reduced" (CR2).
+- Fixed a compiler warning related to missing format specification.
+- If an empty contrast matrix is provided to `df_md`, it will return statistics with `NA` values.
 
-# mmrm 0.3.6
+# mmrm 0.3.7
 
 ### New Features
 

R/skipping.R

@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+# Internal functions used for skipping tests or examples.
+
+# Predicate whether currently running R version is under development.
+is_r_devel <- function() {
+  grepl("devel", R.version$status)
+}
+
+# Predicate whether currently running on a Linux operating system.
+is_linux <- function() {
+  tolower(Sys.info()[["sysname"]]) == "linux"
+}
+
+# Predicate whether currently running on R compiled with clang.
+is_using_clang <- function() {
+  grepl("clang", R_compiled_by()["C"])
+}
+
+# A `data.frame` giving default clang versions for each OS version of the
+# Fedora Linux distribution.
+# Source: https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/clang/clang/
+# See Updates section for older Fedora versions.
+fedora_clang_defaults <- data.frame(
+  os = as.integer(c(36, 37, 38, 39, 40)),
+  clang = as.integer(c(14, 15, 16, 17, 17))
+)
+
+# A `data.frame` giving default clang versions for each OS version of the
+# Debian Linux distribution.
+# Source: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=clang
+debian_clang_defaults <- data.frame(
+  os = c("bullseye", "bookworm", "trixie"),
+  clang = as.integer(c(11, 14, 16))
+)
+
+# Parse the major clang version as integer (e.g. 17) from
+# the full clang string (e.g. "Debian clang version 17.0.6 (3)")
+parse_clang_major <- function(clang_string) {
+  assert_string(clang_string, pattern = "clang")
+  clang_version <- gsub(pattern = "[^0-9.]", replacement = "", x = clang_string)
+  as.integer(gsub(pattern = "([0-9]+).+", replacement = "\\1", x = clang_version))
+}
+
+# Predicate whether a non-standard clang version is used, specifically
+# a higher than default clang version. Assumes that clang is used, otherwise fails.
+# If not Fedora or Debian of the known versions are used, always returns `FALSE`.
+is_non_standard_clang <- function(os_string,
+                                  clang_major_version) {
+  assert_string(os_string)
+  assert_int(clang_major_version)
+  if (grepl("Fedora", os_string)) {
+    os_version <- as.integer(gsub(pattern = "[^0-9]", replacement = "", x = os_string))
+    assert_int(os_version)
+    which_os <- match(os_version, fedora_clang_defaults$os)
+    if (is.na(which_os)) {
+      return(FALSE)
+    }
+    clang_major_version > fedora_clang_defaults$clang[which_os]
+  } else if (grepl("Debian", os_string)) {
+    os_codename <- gsub(pattern = "Debian GNU/Linux ([a-z]+)/*[a-z]*", replacement = "\\1", x = os_string)
+    assert_string(os_codename)
+    which_os <- match(os_codename, debian_clang_defaults$os)
+    if (is.na(which_os)) {
+      return(FALSE)
+    }
+    clang_major_version > debian_clang_defaults$clang[which_os]
+  } else {
+    FALSE
+  }
+}
+
+# Predicate whether an R-devel version is running on Linux Fedora or
+# Debian with a non-standard clang compiler.
+is_r_devel_linux_clang <- function() {
+  is_r_devel() &&
+    is_linux() &&
+    is_using_clang() &&
+    is_non_standard_clang(
+      os_string = utils::osVersion,
+      clang_major_version = parse_clang_major(R_compiled_by()["C"])
+    )
+}

mmrm.Rproj

@@ -19,5 +19,5 @@ BuildType: Package
 PackageUseDevtools: Yes
 PackageInstallArgs: --no-multiarch --with-keep.source
 PackageBuildArgs: --no-build-vignettes
-PackageCheckArgs: --as-cran --no-vignettes
+PackageCheckArgs: --no-vignettes
 PackageRoxygenize: rd,collate,namespace

tests/testthat/helper-skipping.R

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# Custom skipping function, specializing testthat::skip.
+skip_if_r_devel_linux_clang <- function() {
+  do_skip <- is_r_devel_linux_clang()
+  if (do_skip) {
+    skip("On R-devel Linux system with non-standard clang")
+  } else {
+    invisible()
+  }
+}

tests/testthat/test-between-within.R

@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ test_that("h_df_1d_bw works as expected for singular fits", {
 # h_df_md_bw ----
 
 test_that("h_df_md_bw works as expected - between effect", {
+  skip_if_r_devel_linux_clang()
   object <- get_mmrm()
   contrast <- matrix(data = 0, nrow = 2, ncol = length(component(object, "beta_est")))
   contrast[1, 2] <- contrast[2, 3] <- 1
@@ -133,6 +134,7 @@ test_that("h_df_md_bw works as expected - between effect", {
 })
 
 test_that("h_df_md_bw works as expected - within effect", {
+  skip_if_r_devel_linux_clang()
   object <- get_mmrm()
   contrast <- matrix(data = 0, nrow = 2, ncol = length(component(object, "beta_est")))
   contrast[1, 6] <- contrast[2, 7] <- 1
@@ -145,6 +147,7 @@ test_that("h_df_md_bw works as expected - within effect", {
 })
 
 test_that("h_df_md_bw works as expected - both effects", {
+  skip_if_r_devel_linux_clang()
   object <- get_mmrm()
   contrast <- matrix(data = 0, nrow = 2, ncol = length(component(object, "beta_est")))
   contrast[1, 2] <- contrast[2, 3] <- contrast[1, 6] <- contrast[2, 7] <- 1
@@ -157,6 +160,7 @@ test_that("h_df_md_bw works as expected - both effects", {
 })
 
 test_that("h_df_md_bw works as expected for rank deficient model", {
+  skip_if_r_devel_linux_clang()
   object <- get_mmrm_rank_deficient()
   contrast <- matrix(data = 0, nrow = 2, ncol = length(component(object, "beta_est")))
   contrast[1, 2] <- contrast[2, 3] <- 1

tests/testthat/test-emmeans.R

@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ test_that("emm_basis method works also for rank deficient fit", {
 # emmeans ----
 
 test_that("emmeans works as expected", {
+  skip_if_r_devel_linux_clang()
   skip_if_not_installed("emmeans", minimum_version = "1.6")
 
   fit <- get_mmrm()
@@ -115,6 +116,7 @@ test_that("emmeans works as expected for transformed variables and fixed effect
 })
 
 test_that("emmeans gives values close to what is expected", {
+  skip_if_r_devel_linux_clang()
   skip_if_not_installed("emmeans", minimum_version = "1.6")
 
   fit <- get_mmrm()
@@ -136,6 +138,7 @@ test_that("emmeans gives values close to what is expected", {
 })
 
 test_that("emmeans works as expected also for rank deficient fit when singular coefficients are not involved", {
+  skip_if_r_devel_linux_clang()
   skip_if_not_installed("emmeans", minimum_version = "1.6")
 
   fit <- get_mmrm_rank_deficient()

tests/testthat/test-fit.R

@@ -203,27 +203,19 @@ test_that("h_summarize_all_fits works as expected", {
   all_fits <- list(mod_fit, mod_fit2)
   result <- expect_silent(h_summarize_all_fits(all_fits))
 
-  # NOTE:
-  # Test currently fails on R-devel on Fedora with clang for the first optimizer
-  # mmrm v0.1.5 @ r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
-  #   `actual$log_liks`: -2155.280410081641 -1693.224938122514
-  #   `expected$log_liks`: -1693.224935585730 -1693.224938122510
-  #
-  # As this failure only appears on R-devel on Fedora with clang, we are
-  # temporarily skipping this test on CRAN until we can reproduce the behavior.
-  skip_on_cran()
+  skip_if_r_devel_linux_clang()
 
   expected <- list(
     warnings = list(NULL, NULL),
     messages = list(NULL, NULL),
     log_liks = c(-1693.22493558573, -1693.22493812251),
     converged = c(TRUE, TRUE)
   )
-
   expect_equal(result, expected)
 })
 
 test_that("h_summarize_all_fits works when some list elements are try-error objects", {
+  skip_if_r_devel_linux_clang()
   mod_fit <- get_mmrm()
   mod_fit2 <- try(stop("bla"), silent = TRUE)
   mod_fit3 <- get_mmrm()

tests/testthat/test-satterthwaite.R

@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ test_that("h_df_md_from_1d works as expected", {
 # h_df_md_sat ----
 
 test_that("h_df_md_sat works as expected", {
+  skip_if_r_devel_linux_clang()
   object <- get_mmrm()
   contrast <- matrix(data = 0, nrow = 2, ncol = length(component(object, "beta_est")))
   contrast[1, 2] <- contrast[2, 3] <- 1
@@ -156,11 +157,12 @@ test_that("h_df_md_sat works as expected with a non-full rank contrast matrix",
 })
 
 test_that("h_df_md_sat works as expected for rank deficient model", {
+  skip_if_r_devel_linux_clang()
   object <- get_mmrm_rank_deficient()
   contrast <- matrix(data = 0, nrow = 2, ncol = length(component(object, "beta_est")))
   contrast[1, 2] <- contrast[2, 3] <- 1
   result <- expect_silent(h_df_md_sat(object, contrast))
   object2 <- get_mmrm()
   expected <- expect_silent(h_df_md_sat(object2, contrast))
-  expect_identical(result, expected)
+  expect_equal(result, expected, tolerance = 1e-4)
 })

tests/testthat/test-skipping.R

@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+# is_r_devel ----
+
+test_that("is_r_devel works as expected", {
+  expect_flag(is_r_devel())
+})
+
+# is_linux ----
+
+test_that("is_linux works as expected", {
+  expect_flag(is_linux())
+})
+
+# is_using_clang ----
+
+test_that("is_using_clang works as expected", {
+  expect_flag(is_using_clang())
+})
+
+# parse_clang_major ----
+
+test_that("parse_clang_major works as expected", {
+  result <- parse_clang_major("Debian clang version 17.0.6 (3)")
+  expected <- 17L
+  expect_identical(result, expected)
+})
+
+# is_non_standard_clang ----
+
+test_that("is_non_standard_clang works as expected for Fedora", {
+  os_string <- "Fedora Linux 36 (Workstation Edition)"
+  expect_false(is_non_standard_clang(os_string, clang_major_version = 14L))
+  expect_false(is_non_standard_clang(os_string, clang_major_version = 13L))
+  expect_true(is_non_standard_clang(os_string, clang_major_version = 15L))
+})
+
+test_that("is_non_standard_clang returns FALSE for non-listed Fedora versions", {
+  os_string <- "Fedora Linux 12"
+  expect_false(is_non_standard_clang(os_string, clang_major_version = 14L))
+  expect_false(is_non_standard_clang(os_string, clang_major_version = 13L))
+  expect_false(is_non_standard_clang(os_string, clang_major_version = 15L))
+})
+
+test_that("is_non_standard_clang works as expected for Debian", {
+  os_string <- "Debian GNU/Linux trixie/sid"
+  expect_false(is_non_standard_clang(os_string, clang_major_version = 16L))
+  expect_false(is_non_standard_clang(os_string, clang_major_version = 15L))
+  expect_true(is_non_standard_clang(os_string, clang_major_version = 17L))
+})
+
+test_that("is_non_standard_clang returns FALSE for non-listed Debian versions", {
+  os_string <- "Debian GNU/Linux bla"
+  expect_false(is_non_standard_clang(os_string, clang_major_version = 14L))
+  expect_false(is_non_standard_clang(os_string, clang_major_version = 13L))
+  expect_false(is_non_standard_clang(os_string, clang_major_version = 15L))
+})
+
+test_that("is_non_standard_clang returns FALSE for other Linux distributions", {
+  os_string <- "Solaris"
+  expect_false(is_non_standard_clang(os_string, clang_major_version = 14L))
+  expect_false(is_non_standard_clang(os_string, clang_major_version = 13L))
+  expect_false(is_non_standard_clang(os_string, clang_major_version = 15L))
+})
+
+# is_r_devel_linux_clang ----
+
+test_that("is_r_devel_linux_clang works as expected", {
+  expect_flag(is_r_devel_linux_clang())
+})