[datatable-help] Playing nice(r) with S4?

Steve Lianoglou mailinglist.honeypot at gmail.com
Tue Nov 30 16:10:50 CET 2010


On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Tom Short <tshort.rlists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Steve Lianoglou
> <mailinglist.honeypot at gmail.com> wrote:
>> IMHO it would be better to use something like testthat or RUnit and
>> run the test harness for the package with those. I have a feeling we'd
>> avoid these problems that way. If the devs are willing to consider
>> that, I'd volunteer to port the tests over.
>
> Steve, thanks a lot for your work here. As far as tests go, someone
> converted the tests to RUnit at one time. I couldn't figure out how to
> use it or how to add tests. Eventually, it got dropped from lack of
> use. So, if you do convert the tests, please include a short document
> describing how to add tests and how to run the tests.

Well, if it pleases the court, I'd probably use test_that:
https://github.com/hadley/test_that

I'd be happy to write a document on how to run the tests.

-steve

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Steve Lianoglou
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