Non-interactive debug reporter

[JosiahParry]

I'm in a scenario where devtools::check() consistently fails at the testing suite state. However devtools::test() consistently succeeds. I need to be able to see the output from stdout and stderr to get some sort of insight into what is happening.

I am now using the DebugReporter with test_check() in my tests/testthat.R file. However this results in a test error

   Running the tests in ‘tests/testthat.R’ failed.
   Last 13 lines of output:
     * checking for sufficient/correct file permissions ... OK
     * checking whether package ‘testpkg’ can be installed ... ERROR
     Installation failed.
     See ‘/private/var/folders/wd/xq999jjj3bx2w8cpg7lkfxlm0000gn/T/Rtmp7PURPN/working_dir/RtmpaMEiii/file14ff570bd8463/testpkg.Rcheck/00install.out’ for details.
     * DONE
     
     Status: 1 ERROR
     See
       ‘/private/var/folders/wd/xq999jjj3bx2w8cpg7lkfxlm0000gn/T/Rtmp7PURPN/working_dir/RtmpaMEiii/file14ff570bd8463/testpkg.Rcheck/00check.log’
     for details.
     
     Error in utils::menu(choices, title = title) : 
       menu() cannot be used non-interactively
     Calls: test_check ... <Anonymous> -> recover2 -> show_menu -> <Anonymous>
     Execution halted

because the debug reporter tries to recover using utils::menu().

It would be great if there were a reporter that can be used to debug non-interactive scenarios.

Right now I have no way to debug my devtools::check() and the help from the DebugReporter is make it a bit better but also making it tougher to sift through due to the additional error.