testthat 0.10.0 is now available on CRAN. Testthat makes it easy to turn the informal testing that you’re already doing into formal automated tests. Learn more at http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/tests.html . Install the latest version with:

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install.packages("testthat")

There are four big changes in this release:

  • test_check() uses a new reporter specifically designed for R CMD check. It displays a summary at the end of the tests, designed to be <13 lines long so test failures in R CMD check display are as useful as possible.

  • New skip_if_not_installed() skips tests if a package isn’t installed: this is useful if you want tests to skip if a suggested package isn’t installed.

  • The expect_that(a, equals(b)) style of testing has been soft-deprecated in favour of expect_equals(a, b). It will keep working, but it’s no longer demonstrated in the documentation, and new expectations will only be available in expect_equal(a, b) style.

  • compare() is now documented and exported: compare is used to display test failures for expect_equal(), and is designed to help you spot exactly where the failure occured. It currently has methods for character and numeric vectors.

There were a number of other minor improvements and bug fixes. See the release notes for a complete list.