diff --git a/tests/testthat/_snaps/create_extendr_package.md b/tests/testthat/_snaps/create_extendr_package.md
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+# create_extendr_package() creates an extendr package project correctly
+
+    Code
+      rextendr:::create_extendr_package(path = dir, roxygen = TRUE, check_name = TRUE,
+        edition = "2021")
+    Message
+      v Setting active project to 'TEMPORARY_PACKAGE_PATH'
+      v Creating 'R/'
+      v Writing 'DESCRIPTION'
+    Output
+      Package: testCreateExtendrPackage
+      Title: What the Package Does (One Line, Title Case)
+      Version: 0.0.0.9000
+      Authors@R (parsed):
+          * First Last <first.last@example.com> [aut, cre] (YOUR-ORCID-ID)
+      Description: What the package does (one paragraph).
+      License: `use_mit_license()`, `use_gpl3_license()` or friends to pick a
+          license
+      Encoding: UTF-8
+      Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
+      RoxygenNote: 7.2.3
+    Message
+      v Writing 'NAMESPACE'
+      v Writing 'testCreateExtendrPackage.Rproj'
+      v Adding '^testCreateExtendrPackage\\.Rproj$' to '.Rbuildignore'
+      v Adding '.Rproj.user' to '.gitignore'
+      v Adding '^\\.Rproj\\.user$' to '.Rbuildignore'
+      v Setting active project to '<no active project>'
+      v Setting active project to 'TEMPORARY_PACKAGE_PATH'
+      v Adding '^src/\\.cargo$' to '.Rbuildignore'
+
+---
+
+    Code
+      cat_file("INDEX")
+    Output
+      Package: testCreateExtendrPackage
+      
+      BUILD COMPLETE:
+      The project build successfully generated the necessary R package files.
+      
+      NOTE:
+      To use {rextendr} in any meaningful way, the user must have
+      Rust and Cargo available on their local machine. To check that you do,
+      please run `rextendr::rust_sitrep()`. This will provide a
+      detailed report of the current state of your Rust infrastructure, along
+      with some helpful advice about how to address any issues that may arise.
+
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-create_extendr_package.R b/tests/testthat/test-create_extendr_package.R
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+test_that("create_extendr_package() creates an extendr package project correctly", {
+
+  skip_if_not_installed("usethis")
+
+  # capture setup messages
+  withr::local_options(usethis.quiet = FALSE)
+
+  dir <- local_temp_dir("testCreateExtendrPackage")
+
+  scrubbed_string <- normalizePath(dir, winslash = "/")
+
+  expect_snapshot(
+    rextendr:::create_extendr_package(
+      path = dir,
+      roxygen = TRUE,
+      check_name = TRUE,
+      edition = "2021"
+    ),
+    transform = function(lines) {
+      stringi::stri_replace_all_fixed(lines, scrubbed_string, "TEMPORARY_PACKAGE_PATH")
+    }
+  )
+
+  expect_snapshot(cat_file("INDEX"))
+
+})