[Rd] Rout for library/base/R-ex/Extract.data.frame.R

Martin Maechler maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
Wed May 25 16:15:12 CEST 2005


>>>>> "UweL" == Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
>>>>>     on Wed, 25 May 2005 11:08:18 +0200 writes:

    UweL> Vadim Ogranovich wrote:
    >> Hi,
    >> 
    >> I am writing a light-weight data frame class and want to
    >> borrow the test cases from the standard data frame. I
    >> found the test cases in
    >> library/base/R-ex/Extract.data.frame.R, but surprisingly
    >> no corresponding .Rout files. In fact there is no *.Rout
    >> file in the entire tarball. Not that I cann't generate
    >> them, but I am just curious why they are not there? How
    >> does the base package get tested?
    >> 
    >> Thanks, Vadim

    UweL> The base packages have their test cases in ...R/tests
    UweL> rather than ....R/src/library/packagename

yes, and the *examples* from the help pages are just run, and
not compared to prespecified output in *.Rout.save (sic!) files.
In an *installed* (not the source!) version of R or an R package 
you find the R code for all the examples from the help pages
in <pkg>/R-ex/*.R.   
That's the same for all R packages, not just the standard
packages.

Martin Maechler



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