This vignette will teach you how to create a unit test shell for the examples in a single function’s documentation.

Setup

First, let’s set up a dummy package called tempkg with just the detect.R and match.R files from the source code of the stringr package.

usethis::create_package("tempkg", open = FALSE)
fs::file_copy(
  system.file("extdata", c("detect.R", "match.R"), package = "exampletestr"),
  "tempkg/R/"
)

Now let’s move into the tempkg directory:

setwd("tempkg/")

and set the active project:

usethis::proj_set(".")

#> ✔ Setting active project to '/private/var/folders/l_/2mwm03p55zg7zjykv084hhvr0000gn/T/RtmpPdOSWX/tempkg'

Main event

The detect.R file looks like this (well, I’ve abbreviated it slightly):

#' Detect the presence or absence of a pattern in a string.
#'
#' Vectorised over `string` and `pattern`.
#'
#' @param string Input vector. Either a character vector, or something
#'  coercible to one.
#' @param pattern Pattern to look for.
#'
#' @return A logical vector.
#'
#' @export
#' @examples
#' fruit <- c("apple", "banana", "pear", "pinapple")
#' str_detect(fruit, "a")
#' str_detect(fruit, "^a")
#' str_detect(fruit, "a$")
#' str_detect(fruit, "b")
#' str_detect(fruit, "[aeiou]")
str_detect <- function(string, pattern) {
  switch(type(pattern),
    empty = ,
    bound = str_count(string, pattern) > 0,
    fixed = stri_detect_fixed(string, pattern, opts_fixed = opts(pattern)),
    coll = stri_detect_coll(string, pattern, opts_collator = opts(pattern)),
    regex = stri_detect_regex(string, pattern, opts_regex = opts(pattern))
  )
}

We can make the unit tests shell file for the str_match() function using make_test_shell_fun():

make_test_shell_fun("str_detect", open = FALSE)

This outputs a test-str_detect-examples.R file in the tests/testthat folder with contents

test_that("`str_detect()` works", {
  fruit <- c("apple", "banana", "pear", "pinapple")
  expect_equal(str_detect(fruit, "a"), )
  expect_equal(str_detect(fruit, "^a"), )
  expect_equal(str_detect(fruit, "a$"), )
  expect_equal(str_detect(fruit, "b"), )
  expect_equal(str_detect(fruit, "[aeiou]"), )
  expect_equal(str_detect("aecfg", letters), )
})

which can be sensibly completed as

test_that("`str_detect()` works", {
  fruit <- c("apple", "banana", "pear", "pinapple")
  expect_equal(str_detect(fruit, "a"), rep(TRUE, 4))
  expect_equal(str_detect(fruit, "^a"), c(TRUE, rep(FALSE, 3)))
  expect_equal(str_detect(fruit, "a$"), c(FALSE, TRUE, FALSE, FALSE))
  expect_equal(str_detect(fruit, "b"), c(FALSE, TRUE, FALSE, FALSE))
  expect_equal(str_detect(fruit, "[aeiou]"), rep(TRUE, 4))
  expect_equal(
    str_detect("aecfg", letters),
    letters %in% c("a", "c", "e", "f", "g")
  )
})

Roxytest functionality

Alternatively, we can use the roxytest (https://github.com/mikldk/roxytest) package’s @testexamples roxygen tag for testing examples.

make_test_shell_fun("str_detect", roxytest = TRUE)

#> ℹ Running `roxygen2::roxygenize` . . .

#> Updating roxygen version in /private/var/folders/l_/2mwm03p55zg7zjykv084hhvr0000gn/T/RtmpPdOSWX/tempkg/DESCRIPTION

#> Loading tempkg

#> ✔ Roxygenized :-)
#>   @testexamples
#>   #' expect_equal(str_detect(fruit, "a"), )
#>   #' expect_equal(str_detect(fruit, "^a"), )
#>   #' expect_equal(str_detect(fruit, "a$"), )
#>   #' expect_equal(str_detect(fruit, "b"), )
#>   #' expect_equal(str_detect(fruit, "[aeiou]"), )
#>   #' expect_equal(str_detect("aecfg", letters), )
#>   [Copied to clipboard]
#> ● Paste the block into your roxygen documentation.
#> ● Complete the tests in the block.
#> ● Run `devtools::document()` to generate the tests in 'tests/'.

RStudio addin for roxytest functionality

This can also be done by highlighting the function name and selecting the RStudio addin Copy roxytest @testexamples to clipboard.

One function at a time

2020-03-10

Setup

Main event

Roxytest functionality

RStudio addin for roxytest functionality

Cleanup