tests/arguments.R

In rmatio: Read and Write 'Matlab' Files

## rmatio, a R interface to the C library matio, MAT File I/O Library.
## Copyright (C) 2013-2023  Stefan Widgren
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library(rmatio)

## For debugging
sessionInfo()

## If everything works as expected, no data are written to file...
filename <- tempfile(fileext = ".mat")

##
## Argument checking
##
## Check that the function write.mat stop if not the expected
## arguments are given
##

##
## "filename" must be a character vector of length one
##
tools::assertError(write.mat(list(a = 1:5), filename = NULL))
tools::assertError(write.mat(list(a = 1:5), filename = 5))
tools::assertError(write.mat(list(a = 1:5), filename = c("a", "b")))
tools::assertError(write.mat(list(a = 1:5), filename = ""))

##
## "compression" must be a logical vector of length one
##
tools::assertError(write.mat(list(a = 1:5),
                             filename = filename,
                             compression = NULL))
tools::assertError(write.mat(list(a = 1:5),
                             filename = filename,
                             compression = 5))
tools::assertError(write.mat(list(a = 1:5),
                             filename = filename,
                             compression = c(TRUE, TRUE)))
tools::assertError(write.mat(list(a = 1:5),
                             filename = filename,
                             compression = logical(0)))

##
## All values in the list must have a unique name
##
tools::assertError(write.mat(list(1:5),
                             filename = filename,
                             compression = FALSE))
tools::assertError(write.mat(list(a = 1:5, 6:10),
                             filename = filename,
                             compression = FALSE))
tools::assertError(write.mat(list(a = 1:5, a = 6:10),
                             filename = filename,
                             compression = FALSE))

## Make sure the file is removed in case test failure and data are
## written...
unlink(filename)