rpackagerunit

R developing a bioconductor package with TDD (RUnit)

I am trying to follow the BioConductor RUnit guidelines. I have followed the the minimal setup so I have:

Suggests: RUnit, BiocGenerics in DESCRIPTION

BiocGenerics:::testPackage("MyPackage") in MyPackage/tests/runTests.R

and some test_XXX.R files in MyPackage/inst/unitTests/

If I run a single test files with:

library(RUnit)
source("LIBRARY FILES")
source("MyPackage/inst/unitTests/test_getKeywordValue.R")
test_getKeywordValue()

The test run (and fails when need to fail), but if I run

R CMD check MyPackage

The command say:

* checking tests ...
  Running ‘runTests.R’
 OK

But don't run my tests in MyPackage/inst/unitTests directory...

What I missing? 

Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0  
R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26)
Solution

  • Problem solved.

    Here is the story:

    I my package I putted a .Rinstignore file with this line:

    test/*

    I was expecting glob-style matching (like .gitignore) but instead, as RShowDoc("R-exts") say:

    .Rinstignore does perl-style regular expression matching.

    So, my rule test/* was interpreted by R as:

    Ignore all files starting with test followed by 0 or more '/'

    (the part /* was interpreted as match zero or more / characters)

    A quick check with grep show how this work:

    grep("test/*", "inst/unitTests/test_bar.R",perl=TRUE)
[1] 1

    Removing the line 

    test/*

    from .Rinstignore solved the problem.