[R-pkg-devel] Submission to CRAN when package needs personal data (API key)

[Gábor Csárdi]

On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 2:53 PM Iñaki Ucar <iucar using fedoraproject.org> wrote:
[...]
> For the record, this is what the testthat paper in the R Journal says:
>
> "[...] I recommend storing your tests in inst/tests/ (so users also
> have access to them), then including one file in tests/ that runs all
> of the package tests. The test_package(package_name) function makes
> this easy. [...] This setup has the additional advantage that users
> can make sure your package works correctly in their run-time
> environment."

And while deprecated, this method still works just fine, and will
continue to work.
You can just put your tests in inst/tests/testthat and put

withr::with_dir(
         system.file(package = <package>, "tests"),
         testthat::test_check(<package>))

in tests/testthat.R. And of course you can run the tests of the
installed package with
the same piece of code.

Gabor

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