diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 5cb0701..134477e 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Package: projectR
 Type: Package
 Title: Functions for the projection of weights from PCA, CoGAPS, NMF,
     correlation, and clustering
-Version: 1.19.3
+Version: 1.23.1
 Author: Gaurav Sharma, Charles Shin, Jared Slosberg, Loyal Goff, Genevieve Stein-O'Brien
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Gaurav", "Sharma", role = c("aut")),
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test_projectR.R b/tests/testthat/test_projectR.R
index 0f5ddb1..46ddfcf 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test_projectR.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test_projectR.R
@@ -210,8 +210,7 @@ test_that("projection works on sparse data matrix", {
 
   pdense <- projectR(dense, loadings)
   psparse <- projectR(sparse, loadings)
-  expect_identical(projectR(dense, loadings),
-                   projectR(sparse, loadings))
+  expect_identical(pdense, psparse)
 })
 
 test_that("projection works on sparse data matrix with full=TRUE", {
@@ -224,6 +223,5 @@ test_that("projection works on sparse data matrix with full=TRUE", {
 
   pdense <- projectR(dense, loadings, full=TRUE)
   psparse <- projectR(sparse, loadings, full=TRUE)
-  expect_identical(projectR(dense, loadings),
-                   projectR(sparse, loadings))
+  expect_identical(pdense, psparse)
 })
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