What is the current state of Unit testing support in the R language

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Published on 2010-03-30T18:02:07Z Indexed on 2010/03/30 21:33 UTC
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R is a statistics programming language. Part of R is the use of Packages, which themselves are written in the R language. Programming best practice includes the use of unit-testing to test the functions within these packages while they are being written and when they are used.

I am aware of a few packages for unit testing within R, these being

I'm interested to know;

Are there any other packages out there ? Given peoples experience, do these packages excel at different things ? What's the current state of the art in unit testing for R ?

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