[Rd] unit testing for R packages?

Peter Cowan cowan.pd at gmail.com
Tue Oct 6 04:06:00 CEST 2009


On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 7:00 PM, hadley wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Peter Cowan <cowan.pd at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 5:44 PM, hadley wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Now, as Seth already told, there are several functions in svUnit that
>>>> ease interactive use of the tests in an R session. What he did not told
>>>> is that RUnit has some nice code coverage functions that svUnit does not
>>>> have.
>>>
>>> What are those? I've skimmed through the documentation and couldn't
>>> see anything?
>>
>> The R wiki has information about both RUnit and svUnit.  I'm not sure
>> that it details all of the differences.  I have successfully used the
>> methodology of the gdata package described there.
>
> Sorry, I should have been more explicit.  I was interested
> particularly in the code coverage functions.

Those are the inspect and tracker functions of the RUnit package.
I've only played with these functions, how do other developers use
them?

> Hadley

> http://had.co.nz/
>



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