Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208091519010.1890-100000@localhost.localdomain>
Date: 2002-08-09T14:08:00Z
From: Ott Toomet
Subject: package tests
Hi,
It is not quite clear for me what do tests mean in the case of a package.
,,Writing R extensions'' says:
... these two [files .Rout.save and .Rout] are compared, with differences
being reported but not causing an error.
and
... tests specified in that directory are run [by R CMD check].
I want to write a test for a self-made output routine, which saves data to a
file. I think, in this case it is meaningful to create a data, save to the
file, and then compare the new file with the original one. But two problems
arose -- first, R seems to assume that it is output to screen, which is to
be compared, and second, CMD check said OK even when the files were quite a
different. Or is CMD check simply testing whether the test programs produce
an error?
with best wishes,
Ott Toomet
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