How do I run PKNCA validation?

[Just-another-Beth]

From the PKNCA Validation Vignette:

Summary of Testing
The following sentence is dynamically generated to summarize the testing results: Tests were not run because tests are not installed.

I don't know enough about R to run the validation tests. When I use the other commands, it seems as if the tests were not run. Sorry if this is a very basic question, but I feel like information

[billdenney]

To run the validation tests, you need to install the package with the tests, as described in the vignette:

install.packages(pkgs="PKNCA", INSTALL_opts="--install-tests", type="source")

When you do that, it will build the vignette with the tests, and it should show that all tests pass on your local system.

[Just-another-Beth]

I am very new to this, so I apologize if I just don't know what it the response would be if all the tests pass. After I install the package, it gives me this complicated readout, and when I type "sessionInfo()" to get the results, I get more printout that doesn't seem like a test result. Is there some kind of "build vignette" command that I'm missing. It sounds like it should be easy, but I'm not seeing what I would expect to see. I pasted all of my results below.

• installing source package 'PKNCA' ...
  ** package 'PKNCA' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
  ** using staged installation
  ** R
  ** inst
  ** tests
  ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
  ** help
  *** installing help indices
  *** copying figures
  ** building package indices
  ** installing vignettes
  ** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location
  ** testing if installed package can be loaded from final location
  ** testing if installed package keeps a record of temporary installation path
• DONE (PKNCA)

sessionInfo()
Is the command, to get the information about the test, and it simply says

sessionInfo()
R version 4.3.3 (2024-02-29 ucrt)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 11 x64 (build 22621)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.utf8
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.utf8
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.utf8
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.utf8

time zone: America/Chicago
tzcode source: internal

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.3.3 cli_3.6.2 tools_4.3.3 rstudioapi_0.16.0

[Just-another-Beth]

Sorry to be a bother. I'm still learning to navigate in R. My son sent me the .rnd file, and when I opened in in R studio, it ran the validation. I can see test results in the upper right pane

Thanks for your patience

[billdenney]

I'm glad that it worked out. If you have ideas that could make the validation test results clearer, please let me know.