[Rd] unit testing for R packages?

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Mon Oct 5 21:18:42 CEST 2009


On 10/5/2009 3:01 PM, Blair Christian wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm interested in putting some unit tests into an R package I'm
> building.  I have seen assorted things such as Runit library, svUnit
> library, packages
> with 'tests' directories, etc
> 
> I grep'd "unit test" through the writing R extensions manual but didn't find
> anything.  Are there any suggestions out there?  


Nothing very specific, but what there is is described in that manual in 
the discussion of the "tests" subdirectory.

Duncan Murdoch

Currently I have
> several (a lot?) classes/methods that I keep tinkering with, and I'd
> like to run a script frequently to check that I don't cause any
> unforeseen problems.
> 
> Right now I'm writing the classes/methods, but will be packaging it up soon.
> 
> Thx,
> Blair
> 
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