Hi Neal, Re-using demos for your package tests is a great idea, and should be done more often.
However, I tend to agree with Iñaki---I generally prefer vignettes to demos. I wanted to point out that you could take a similar strategy to what you suggested, but using a vignette instead of a demo. The code is slightly more complicated but seems to work. See here for an example: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pcarbo/varbvs/test_vignette/varbvs-R/tests/testthat/test_vignette.R (Anyone, please reply if you know of a better way to implement this!) Peter On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 1:18 AM, Iñaki Úcar <i.uca...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2017-10-20 5:42 GMT+02:00 Neal Fultz <nfu...@gmail.com>: > > A graduate student just asked me (copied below), in response to a bug I > > wrote ( > > https://github.com/DeclareDesign/estimatr/pull/38/commits/ > 99e82e253979d1307714632e9dc05d2e2c9c66df > > ): > > > > How do demos normally relate to tests and vignettes? Is the purpose > simply > >> to have manually run tests that check the things work in the global > >> environment? > > There is a good definition and description here: > http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/misc.html > > Personally, I'm not a fan of demos, because I prefer to copy&paste > from vignettes as I read and understand the different parts of the > problem in question. > > Iñaki > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
