Testing pane extended to non-package development R projects

[kv9898]

It seems that the testing pane now only supports R packages. However, I'm using testthat for enhancing the reproducibility of our academic project (https://github.com/IMFPaper/IMF). I wonder this will be supported?

Update: I found out that by adding a DESCRIPTION file, my project can "pretend to be" an R package, and the tests will show up. Is this the intended solution or just a temporary workaround?

[jennybc]

There are no concrete plans to explicitly handle non-package projects in the testing pane. Mostly because testthat itself really doesn't have a stance on running tests systematically outside of a package. So I say "carry on" with the solution you've found.

[kv9898]

Further update: Adding DESCRIPTION causes some other problems:

1. R scripts no longer have "Run" buttons in Positron
2. Quarto documents fail to render/preview.

[kv9898]

For those who are interested, I've written an extension for Positron dedicated to this purpose. It complements the builtin testing support for R packages and extends it to non-package projects.