[SPARK-15091] Fix warnings and a failure in SparkR test cases with testthat version 1.0.1

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.6.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: SparkR
• Assignee: Sun Rui
• Reporter: Sun Rui
• Created: 03/May/16 13:05
• Updated: 03/May/16 16:31
• Resolved: 03/May/16 16:31

Description

After upgrading "testthat" package to version 1.0.1, new warnings and a new failure were found in SparkR test cases:

```
Warnings -----------------------------------------------------------------------
1. multiple packages don't produce a warning (@test_client.R#35) - `not()` is deprecated.

2. sparkJars sparkPackages as comma-separated strings (@test_context.R#141) - `not()` is deprecated.

3. spark.survreg (@test_mllib.R#453) - `not()` is deprecated.

4. date functions on a DataFrame (@test_sparkSQL.R#1199) - Deprecated: please use `expect_gt()` instead

5. date functions on a DataFrame (@test_sparkSQL.R#1200) - Deprecated: please use `expect_gt()` instead

6. date functions on a DataFrame (@test_sparkSQL.R#1201) - Deprecated: please use `expect_gt()` instead

7. Method as.data.frame as a synonym for collect() (@test_sparkSQL.R#1899) - `not()` is deprecated.

Failure: showDF() (@test_sparkSQL.R#1513) -----------------------------------
`s` produced no output
```

Changes in releases of testthat can be found at https://github.com/hadley/testthat/blob/master/NEWS.md

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #12867 (sun-rui)