R language not represented and should be with testthat and unittest

[malcook]

https://github.com/hadley/testthat
and
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RUnit/index.html
??

[mblayman]

@malcook, thanks for the suggestion!

I looked briefly at the documentation for both of these tools and found no indication that either tool produces or consumes TAP output. The list of test tools on the TAP producers and consumers page are for tools that are specifcally capable of producing TAP output. Those pages are not intended to be an exhaustive listing of all testing tools.

Am I mistaken? If those tools do produce or consume TAP and I missed that in the documentation, then, awesome, they would be worthy additions. If they don't, we can close out the issue until they do support TAP.

[malcook]

Hi @mblayman - I think you are mistaken

testthat can be a producer: c.f. http://www.inside-r.org/packages/cran/testthat/docs/TapReporter

unittest too: c.f. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/unittest/index.html "Concise TAP (http://testanything.org/) compliant unit testing package."

[mblayman]

Glad I'm mistaken. testthat is clearly a TAP producer based on that link. Looks like RUnit and unittest are separate packages. Is that right or am I missing some connection?

My apologies for bumbling around with this. I'm not an R user and am not adept at navigating the language's documentation

[malcook]

Hi - no problem - I appreciate your efforts - worthy cause - glad to contribute - ​yes they are separate packages - the primary testing frameworks in R are not ground in TAP but they both can optionally generate TAP.

This is likely to be all there is, based on scanning the R package libraries. Look: https://goo.gl/moS3Lp