Installed packages testthat and roxygen2 don't seem to do anything

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I am trying to use the testpackage utility from RStudio server and this is what I get:

==> devtools::test()

No tests: no files in /home/giuseppa/glycopipeshiny/tests/testthat match '^test.*\.[rR]$'

Do I have to create the tests myself?

Whwn I build a package I find the required packages,

devtools::session_info()
Session info ------------------------------------------------------------------
 setting  value                       
 version  R version 3.4.2 (2017-09-28)
 system   x86_64, linux-gnu           
 ui       RStudio (1.1.383)           
 language (EN)                        
 collate  en_US.UTF-8                 
 tz       posixrules                  
 date     2017-11-30                  

Packages ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 package        * version date       source        
 base           * 3.4.2   2017-10-28 local         
 commonmark       1.4     2017-09-01 CRAN (R 3.4.2)
 compiler         3.4.2   2017-10-28 local         
 crayon           1.3.4   2017-09-16 CRAN (R 3.4.2)
 datasets       * 3.4.2   2017-10-28 local         
 devtools         1.13.4  2017-11-09 CRAN (R 3.4.2)
 digest           0.6.12  2017-01-27 CRAN (R 3.4.2)
 glycopipeshiny * 0.1.0   2017-11-30 local         
 graphics       * 3.4.2   2017-10-28 local         
 grDevices      * 3.4.2   2017-10-28 local         
 magrittr         1.5     2014-11-22 CRAN (R 3.4.2)
 memoise          1.1.0   2017-04-21 CRAN (R 3.4.2)
 methods        * 3.4.2   2017-10-28 local         
 R6               2.2.2   2017-06-17 CRAN (R 3.4.2)
 Rcpp             0.12.14 2017-11-23 CRAN (R 3.4.2)
 roxygen2       * 6.0.1   2017-02-06 CRAN (R 3.4.2)
 rstudioapi       0.7     2017-09-07 CRAN (R 3.4.2)
 stats          * 3.4.2   2017-10-28 local         
 stringi          1.1.6   2017-11-17 CRAN (R 3.4.2)
 stringr          1.2.0   2017-02-18 CRAN (R 3.4.2)
 testthat       * 1.0.2   2016-04-23 CRAN (R 3.4.2)
 tools            3.4.2   2017-10-28 local         
 utils          * 3.4.2   2017-10-28 local         
 withr            2.1.0   2017-11-01 CRAN (R 3.4.2)
 xml2             1.1.1   2017-01-24 CRAN (R 3.4.2),

but the building results are: ==> devtools::document(roclets=c('rd', 'collate', 'namespace', 'vignette'))

Updating glycopipeshiny documentation
Loading glycopipeshiny
First time using roxygen2. Upgrading automatically...
Warning: The existing 'NAMESPACE' file was not generated by roxygen2, and will not be overwritten.
Documentation completed

==> R CMD INSTALL --no-multiarch --with-keep.source glycopipeshiny

* installing to library ‘/home/giuseppa/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4’
* installing *source* package ‘glycopipeshiny’ ...
** R
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
 DONE (glycopipeshiny)

Is as if the installed packages: testthat and roxygen2 are not doing any thing. Do you know what is going on here?

** testing if installed package can be loaded

In addition to the previous the DESCRIPTION file is suggesting testthat
Package: glycopipeshiny
Type: Package
Title: What the Package Does (Title Case)
Version: 0.1.0
Author: Who wrote it
Maintainer: The package maintainer giuseppa.cefalu@childrens.harvard.edu
Description: More about what it does (maybe more than one line)
Use four spaces when indenting paragraphs within the Description.
License: What license is it under?
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
Suggests: testthat
RoxygenNote: 6.0.1