comparison-expectations: Do you expect a value bigger or smaller than this?

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Do you expect a value bigger or smaller than this?

Description

These functions compare values of comparable data types, such as numbers, dates, and times.

Usage

expect_lt(object, expected, label = NULL, expected.label = NULL)

expect_lte(object, expected, label = NULL, expected.label = NULL)

expect_gt(object, expected, label = NULL, expected.label = NULL)

expect_gte(object, expected, label = NULL, expected.label = NULL)

Arguments

object, expected	A value to compare and its expected bound.
label, expected.label	Used to customise failure messages. For expert use only.

See Also

Other expectations: equality-expectations, expect_error(), expect_length(), expect_match(), expect_named(), expect_null(), expect_output(), expect_reference(), expect_silent(), inheritance-expectations, logical-expectations

Examples

a <- 9
expect_lt(a, 10)

## Not run: 
expect_lt(11, 10)

## End(Not run)

a <- 11
expect_gt(a, 10)
## Not run: 
expect_gt(9, 10)

## End(Not run)

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