As of uniset version 0.3.0 there are some functions
included in the file ‘uniset_functions.R’ that enable the testing of the
target package also on remote runners.
The problem with those remote runners is that, to the authors humble
knowledge, it is not possible to source the settings.R file from a
user-defined location, as the necessary system variable
(Sys.getenv()) pointing to this user-defined location can
not be set.
Therefore a set of functions is introduced to source the settings.R file from the root of the installed package instead of from the user-defined location in a test scenario.
For those functions to know that a test-script is being run, a
specially named object has to be assigned to .GlobalEnv in
the test-script. In our example
the target package is named dogPack, and so the object
would be assigned as follows:
assign("get_settings_from_dogPack_package_root", TRUE, pos=.GlobalEnv)Please also observe the example in the file
/dogPack/tests/testthat/test-dogPackFunc.R that was
(possibly) copied
before.