In order to develop a package, I am using testthat
. I want to test if my functions send proper messages and warnings. I want to test the results of functions at the same time. This is how I am trying to do it:
## R/foo.r
foo <- function() {
message("This is a message")
warning("This is a warning")
"This is a result"
}
I write these tests:
## tests/testthat/test-foo.R
test_that("foo works", {
expect_equal(foo(), "This is a result")
expect_message(foo(), "This is a message")
expect_warning(foo(), "This is a warning")
})
But now when I run the tests I have this:
Loading testWarnMess
Testing testWarnMess
v | OK F W S | Context
/ | 0 | foo This is a message
v | 3 2 | foo [0.3 s]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Warning (test-foo.R:2:3): foo works
This is a warning
Backtrace:
1. testthat::expect_equal(foo(), "This is a result") test-foo.R:2:2
4. testWarnMess::foo()
Warning (test-foo.R:3:3): foo works
This is a warning
Backtrace:
1. testthat::expect_message(foo(), "This is a message") test-foo.R:3:2
7. testWarnMess::foo()
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
== Results ===================================================================================
Duration: 0.3 s
[ FAIL 0 | WARN 2 | SKIP 0 | PASS 3 ]
This is a message
How to prevent messages and warnings to be seen in the test results when I am expecting them to happen?
One great way to do that is to use the adverb purrr::quietly
.
test_that("foo works", {
qfoo <- purrr::quietly(foo)
qfoo_call <- qfoo()
expect_equal(qfoo_call$result, "This is a result")
expect_equal(qfoo_call$message, "This is a message")
expect_equal(qfoo_call$warning, "This is a warning")
})