autotest: Automatic Package Testing

Automatic testing of R packages by tracing function calls made in examples and tests, then systematically varying the inputs to check that functions respond sensibly. The package is a development aid for authors submitting to the 'rOpenSci' statistical software review project ('rOpenSci' authors, 2021; <doi:10.5281/zenodo.5556756>).

Version: 0.2.0
Imports: checkmate, cli, data.table, fs, grDevices, here, magrittr, memoise, methods, pkgload, rlang, testthat, tibble, typetracer, withr
Suggests: devtools, dplyr, DT, goodpractice, knitr, rmarkdown, roxygen2, tidyr, usethis
Published: 2026-09-12
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.autotest (may not be active yet)
Author: Mark Padgham ORCID iD [aut, cre], Jouni Helske ORCID iD [ctb]
Maintainer: Mark Padgham <mark.padgham at email.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/ropensci-review-tools/autotest/issues
License: GPL-3
URL: https://docs.ropensci.org/autotest/, https://github.com/ropensci-review-tools/autotest
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-GB
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: autotest results

Documentation:

Reference manual: autotest.html , autotest.pdf
Vignettes: Control of tests (source, R code)
autotest, pkgcheck, goodpractice - which tool does what? (source, R code)
How to use autotest (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: autotest_0.2.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): autotest_0.2.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): autotest_0.2.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): autotest_0.2.0.tgz

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