library(testit) pkgs = c(rownames(installed.packages(priority = 'high')), 'evaluate', 'knitr') write_bib(pkgs, tempfile(), tweak = FALSE) assert('& is escaped in title when write_bib(tweak = TRUE)', { (length(grep(' & ', grep( '^ title =', capture.output(write_bib(pkgs, tweak = TRUE)), value = TRUE ))) %==% 0L) })