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R: Run all tests in an installed package.

test_package

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Run all tests in an installed package.

Description

Test are run in an environment that inherits from the package's namespace environment, so that tests can access non-exported functions and variables. Tests should be placed in tests/testthat. Use test_check with R CMD check and test_package interactively at the console.

Usage

test_package(package, filter = NULL, reporter = "summary", ...)

test_check(package, filter = NULL, reporter = "check", ...)

Arguments

`package`	package name
`filter`	If not `NULL`, only tests with file names matching this regular expression will be executed. Matching will take on the file name after it has been stripped of `"test-"` and `".R"`.
`reporter`	reporter to use
`...`	Additional arguments passed to `grepl` to control filtering.

Value

the results as a "testthat_results" (list)

R CMD check

Create tests/testthat.R that contains:

library(testthat)
library(yourpackage)

test_check("yourpackage")

Examples

## Not run: test_package("testthat")