Many tests require some external file (e.g. a .csv
if you're testing a
data import function) but the working directory varies depending on the way
that you're running the test (e.g. interactively, with devtools::test()
,
or with R CMD check
). test_path()
understands these variations and
automatically generates a path relative to tests/testthat
, regardless of
where that directory might reside relative to the current working directory.