Unit tests for R
This lesson is called Unit tests for R, part of the Package Development with R course. This lesson is called Unit tests for R, part of the Package Development with R course.
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For this section of the course, you’ll need the materials in this GitHub repo. You can download or clone them. After you download or clone the materials from the GitHub repo for this section of the course, open the entire project by clicking 04_avalanchr.Rproj.
Your Turn
Working in the exercises.Rmd file:
Use use_test() to create a new file. Call it “resident_connection”
Change the test description (the first argument of test_that()) to “connection is returning valid data”
In the test_that() function, remove the default expectations. Replace them with this code
Re-load your package.
Press the “Run tests” button in RStudio (above the script pane) or run test_file(“tests/testthat/test-resident_connection.R”) in the console.
Learn More
To learn about the testthat package, check out its website.
The R Packages book has a good chapter on testing.
Shannon Pileggi has also written a blog post called Getting started with unit testing in R.
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Course Content
27 Lessons
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