test_that("read_dcf and write_dcf", { DESC <- "Package: foobar Description: With continuation lines. Like . This one. . And this one. Title: Foo Bar " tmp <- tempfile() cat(DESC, file = tmp) dcf <- read_dcf(tmp) expect_equal(length(dcf), 3) expect_equal(names(dcf), c("Package", "Description", "Title")) tmp2 <- tempfile() on.exit(unlink(tmp2), add = TRUE) write_dcf(tmp2, dcf) DESC2 <- readChar(tmp2, nchars = file.info(tmp2)$size) ## This is a workaround for a write.dcf bug ## And also windows line ending characters DESC2 <- gsub("\r\n", "\n", DESC2) DESC2 <- gsub("\n .\n ", "\n .\n ", DESC2) expect_equal(DESC, DESC2) })