Snapshot testing bug (?): "no snapshotter active"

[raphael-lorenzdelaigue]

I created a new custom package following the guidelines here: https://r-pkgs.org/whole-game.html
And tried to perform snapshot testing on a function following this vignette: https://testthat.r-lib.org/articles/snapshotting.html.
However when trying to run the test I get the following message

No snapshotter active. Current value: 
[...]

The current value makes sense for my function, but the _snaps folder and corresponding *.R file are not created. I get the same message if re-running the test.

Same thing if I try with another function, for example the "bullets" example function from the vignette.

Example code:

test_that("bullets", {
  local_edition(3)
  expect_snapshot(cat(bullets("a")))
})

Example output:

No snapshotter active. Current value: 
Code
    cat(bullets(\"a\"))
Output
  <ul>
      <li>a</li>
  </ul>
-- Skip (???): bullets---------------------------------------------------------
Reason: empty test

Is there a way to activate the snapshotter? Or is this just a bug?

I am quite new to R/RStudio so I might have missed out on something obvious to try out. Happy for any kind of advice.

[hadley]

You have to test the whole file with test_file() or similar. I'll make that clearer in the warning message.

[raphael-lorenzdelaigue]

Thanks a lot, solved the problem.
Thanks also for the nice feature, came just at the right moment for me !