[Rd] Using unit-tests as examples

Alexey Sergushichev alsergbox at gmail.com
Mon Jan 20 10:32:56 CET 2014


Yes, this may work, but this way I have to have one test per file,
which is not very convenient.

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Alexey


On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Hadley Wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you're using roxygen2, you can use @example tag to include an
> external file into the examples.
>
> Hadley
>
> On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Alexey Sergushichev
> <alsergbox at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Which is the best way to use unit tests as examples for documentation?
>> I use testthat, but if there is a good way to do this, for example,
>> only with RUnit, it'd still be good to know.
>>
>> Unit-tests are usually simple and concise, so they are good candidates
>> for example code, but I don't want to copy them into documentation and
>> maintain by hands. I tried to google how people handle this, but
>> didn't find anything.
>>
>> ---
>> Best regards,
>> Alexey
>>
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