Issue 2025-W42 Highlights

Creating your own race to a programming finish line with a hidden gem in mirai, the lowdown on using Generative AI for data visualization with more than a few surprises, and going from start to finish with a Shiny app created under the BDD mindset.
Episode Links

• This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @parmsam_ (X/Twitter)
• Aaaaand… they’re off!
• Generative AI for Data Visualisation
• Behavior-Driven Development in R Shiny: A Step-By-Step Example
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2025-W42

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• DataBot https://positron.posit.co/databot.html

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