[help] Testing functions under R/

[asadow]

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Description

I encountered a situation where I had edited a function under R/ and without testing, it broke the pipeline. I debugged and then reverted the edit.

So, I need tests. I don't want to create a new package to test, however. I do believe the functions under R/ belong in the targets project.

Is the best course of action to create a testthat folder and during development run testthat::test_dir(".")?

[wlandau]

Is the best course of action to create a testthat folder and during development run testthat::test_dir(".")?

If it works in your case, then by all means. The whole setup should be more flexible than if you were writing a formal R package (i.e. the test suite could be just a bunch of scripts in tests/ instead of tests/testthat/).