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use_testthat

Sets up overall testing infrastructure

Description

Creates tests/testthat/, tests/testthat.R, and adds the testthat package to the Suggests field. Learn more in https://r-pkgs.org/tests.html

Usage

use_testthat(edition = NULL, parallel = FALSE)

Arguments

`edition`	testthat edition to use. Defaults to the latest edition, i.e. the major version number of the currently installed testthat.
`parallel`	Should tests be run in parallel? This feature appeared in testthat 3.0.0; see https://testthat.r-lib.org/articles/parallel.html for details and caveats.

Examples

## Not run: 
use_testthat()

use_test()

use_test("something-management")

## End(Not run)

usethis

Automate Package and Project Setup

v2.0.1

MIT + file LICENSE

Authors

Hadley Wickham [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4757-117X>), Jennifer Bryan [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6983-2759>), RStudio [cph, fnd]

Initial release