Test for expected data rectangles and file contents

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R Client for Dataverse Repositories

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Closed wibeasley closed 2 years ago

wibeasley commented 3 years ago

As part of the test suite (#4), the retrieved data & files should be compared to their expected values/file/data. Some of the options are:

[x] the original data file (compared as text) --this is the most portable across client libraries, like pyDataverse and dataverse-client-python. See #29
[ ] the tsv from the ingested tab (maybe compared as text)
[x] the data.frame converted from the ingested tab (maybe compared as an rds)

kuriwaki commented 3 years ago

What's the difference between the second and third items? Once a tabular datafile is read into R, it's already a dataframe.

If we want to go for extensive tests, I think we want tests for:

[x] ingested datafiles read in in their ingested (tab plain text) form
[ ] ingested datafiles read in their original form (which may be csv, dta, sav, xlsx - see supported formats).
[x] non -ingested datafiles (e.g. a rds file nlsw_rds-export.rds) read in their original form

kuriwaki commented 2 years ago

The above commits give decent tests for rds and rda.