-- Tony Plate
At Wednesday 01:01 PM 3/17/2004, A.J. Rossini wrote:
the package 'tests' directory is great, and we use it, but it isn't unit testing in the same sense -- more regression tests (reactive rather than proactive).
best, -tony
Tony Plate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Packages can have a 'tests' directory, which can contain foo.R and > foo.Rout.save files. When packages are built (or checked) the output > from running R with the commands in foo.R is compared with > foo.Rout.save, and differences are reported. > > The "Writing R Extensions" manual discusses this a little. It > suggests: "Use R CMD check --help (Rcmd check --help on Windows) to > obtain more information about the usage of the R package checker. A > subset of the checking steps can be selected by adding flags." > > I've considered looking at several enhancements of the testing > features: (1) automatically construct foo.R from foo.Rout.save (easy > if the file only contains simple commands issued at the standard > prompt); (2) allow specification of which test files to run; and (3) > print summaries of test successes and failures at the end of running > the selected tests. Is there any wider interest in such features? > > -- Tony Plate > > At Wednesday 11:11 AM 3/17/2004, Paul Shannon wrote: >>In a quick search of the R website just now, I found no mention of >>a unit testing framework for R. I hope to find something >>in the style of Java's JUnit, or Python's unittest. Is such a >>thing available? >> >>Thanks, >> >> - Paul Shannon >> Institute for Systems Biology >> Seattle >> >>______________________________________________ >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list >>https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >
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