Add explanatory comment for test tolerance adjustment

Copilot · osorensen · Copilot · commit 76c585db77e3 · 2026-02-04T07:57:01.000Z
Co-authored-by: osorensen &lt;21175639+osorensen@users.noreply.github.com&gt;
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-compute_sequentially_partial.R b/tests/testthat/test-compute_sequentially_partial.R
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ test_that("compute_sequentially works with partial data", {
       max_particle_filters = 30, max_rejuvenation_steps = 5)
   )
   alpha_hat <- weighted.mean(x = as.numeric(mod$alpha), w = mod$importance_weights)
+  # Tolerance adjusted to 0.04 to account for platform-specific variations
+  # in Monte Carlo results (observed 0.046 on r-oldrel-macos and noLD)
   expect_gt(alpha_hat, .04)
   expect_lt(alpha_hat, .09)
 

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`@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ test_that("compute_sequentially works with partial data", {`
`8`	`8`	`max_particle_filters = 30, max_rejuvenation_steps = 5)`
`9`	`9`	`)`
`10`	`10`	`alpha_hat <- weighted.mean(x = as.numeric(mod$alpha), w = mod$importance_weights)`
	`11`	`+ # Tolerance adjusted to 0.04 to account for platform-specific variations`
	`12`	`+ # in Monte Carlo results (observed 0.046 on r-oldrel-macos and noLD)`
`11`	`13`	`expect_gt(alpha_hat, .04)`
`12`	`14`	`expect_lt(alpha_hat, .09)`
`13`	`15`