[R] R package tests

[Philippe Grosjean]

There is a mechanism for testing code in R packages (R CMD check), see 
the Writing R extensions manual. If you need more flexibility for your 
tests, you could look at RUnit on CRAN, or svUnit on R-Forge 
(http://r-forge.r-project.org, on CRAN soon). For the later one, you 
install it by:

install.packages("svUnit", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")

These is a vignette associated with svUnit:

vignette("svUnit")

Note that RUnit and svUnit are "test suite code" compatible, but they 
use very different mechanisms internally.
Best,

Philippe Grosjean

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Nathan S. Watson-Haigh wrote:
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> I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction for reading up on writing tests in
> R. I'm writing some functions for inclusion into a package and would like to test them to ensure
> they're doing what I expect them to do.
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> Are these approaches used for testing packages in CRAN?
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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