Software testing is important, but many of us don’t do it because it is frustrating and boring. testthat is a new testing framework for R that is easy learn and use, and integrates with your existing workflow. This paper shows how, with illustrations from existing packages.
testthat, RUnit, svUnit, stringr, lubridate
ReproducibleResearch, TimeSeries
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Wickham, "The R Journal: testthat: Get Started with Testing", The R Journal, 2011
BibTeX citation
@article{RJ-2011-002,
author = {Wickham, Hadley},
title = {The R Journal: testthat: Get Started with Testing},
journal = {The R Journal},
year = {2011},
note = {https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2011-002},
doi = {10.32614/RJ-2011-002},
volume = {3},
issue = {1},
issn = {2073-4859},
pages = {5-10}
}