I teach R and epidemiology courses and am building a course website that includes automatic code checking for student submissions. Ideally, I'd like to use an open-source package rather than build something from scratch.
So far, I’ve looked into:
testwhat– last commit: June 22, 2022gradethis– last commit: July 5, 2023gradeR– last commit: December 16, 2021
They all look promising, but none seem to be actively maintained.
I also found this helpful thread on the Posit Community about using gradethis, learnr, and ghclass, but it's from October 2019—so I’m not sure how much of it is still current.
My questions:
- Does anyone know if any of these packages are still under active development or maintenance?
- Are there other packages or tools I may have missed that are better suited for interactive code checking in an educational context?
- Has anyone used
testthatfor student code evaluation (even though it's designed for unit testing R packages)?
Thanks in advance for any guidance or recommendations!