diff --git a/tests/testthat/test_analysis_example_bangertdrowns2004.r b/tests/testthat/test_analysis_example_bangertdrowns2004.r
index 71f6483..bd705d2 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test_analysis_example_bangertdrowns2004.r
+++ b/tests/testthat/test_analysis_example_bangertdrowns2004.r
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
-context("test-dat.bangertdrowns2004.R")
-library(metadat)
+context("Checking analysis example: bangertdrowns2004")
+
 library(metafor)
+source("tolerances.r") # read in tolerances
+
 
 ### copy data into 'dat' and examine data
 dat <- dat.bangertdrowns2004
@@ -14,7 +16,7 @@ test_that("Returns rma object", {
   expect_is(res, "rma.uni")
 })
 
-test_that("Checks rma results", {
+test_that("results are correct for the random-effects model.", {
   expect_identical(round(res$k, digits = 2), 48)
   expect_identical(round(as.numeric(res$beta[,1]), digits = 7), 0.2219296)
   expect_identical(round(as.numeric(res$tau2), digits = 7), 0.0499411)
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test_analysis_example_barone2019.r b/tests/testthat/test_analysis_example_barone2019.r
index d3a1272..ceaf35d 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test_analysis_example_barone2019.r
+++ b/tests/testthat/test_analysis_example_barone2019.r
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
-context("test-dat.barone2019.R")
+context("Checking analysis example: barone2019")
+
 library(metadat)
 library(metafor)
 
 ## Make copy of dataset
-dat <- dat.barone2019
+dat <- metadat::dat.barone2019
 
 # First model 
 res <- rma(yi=logit.p., sei = sei, data=dat, slab = paste(Author, Year)) 
@@ -13,7 +14,7 @@ test_that("Returns rma object", {
   expect_is(res, "rma.uni")
 })
 
-test_that("Checks rma results", {
+test_that("results are correct for the random-effects model.", {
   expect_identical(round(res$k, digits = 2), 56)
   expect_identical(round(as.numeric(res$beta[,1]), digits = 7), 0.5662584)
   expect_identical(round(as.numeric(res$tau2), digits = 7), 0.4949573)
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test_data_barone2019.R b/tests/testthat/test_data_barone2019.R
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..29a6844
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/testthat/test_data_barone2019.R
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+context("Checking data: barone2019")
+
+library(metadat)
+library(metafor)
+library(digest)
+
+## Make copy of dataset
+dat <- metadat::dat.barone2019
+
+test_that("checks data md5 hash", {
+  expect_match(digest(metadat::dat.barone2019, algo = "md5"), "44d1bfc0b736fc8c3846af9e0d81694b")
+})
+
+test_that('data dimensions are correct', {
+  expect_equal(ncol(dat), 22)
+  expect_equal(nrow(dat), 56)
+})
+
+test_that('data types are correct', {
+  expect_is(dat, 'data.frame')
+  expect_is(dat$id, 'character')
+  expect_is(dat$Author, 'character')
+  expect_is(dat$Year, 'integer')
+  expect_is(dat$Paradigm, 'character')
+  expect_is(dat$Measure, 'character')
+  expect_is(dat$Age_months, 'numeric')
+  expect_is(dat$n, 'integer')
+  expect_is(dat$Dropped_participants, 'integer')
+  expect_is(dat$Dropped_participants_corrected, 'integer')
+  expect_is(dat$Familiarization, 'integer')
+  expect_is(dat$Belief, 'character')
+  expect_is(dat$Agent, 'character')
+  expect_is(dat$Target_object_Presence, 'character')
+  expect_is(dat$Object_movements, 'integer')
+  expect_is(dat$Motive_transformation, 'character')
+  expect_is(dat$Salience_of_agents_MS, 'character')
+  expect_is(dat$Interaction, 'character')
+  expect_is(dat$Design, 'character')
+  expect_is(dat$Test_trials, 'integer')
+  expect_is(dat$logit.p., 'numeric')
+  expect_is(dat$vlogit.p., 'numeric')
+  expect_is(dat$sei, 'numeric')
+})
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