Issue 2025-W28 Highlights

It's been far too long since our last episode of R Weekly Highlights, but we are finally back with episode 207! In this episode we learn about novel ways to automate fancy Quarto content, how we can be on our best behavior with behavior-driven-development, and finding that pesky portion of data breaking long data pipelines with a magical debugging technique. Plus one of your hosts could not resist a hot take or two!
Episode Links

• This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo@mstdn.social (Mastodon) & @rbyryo.bsky.social (Bluesky) & @R_by_Ryo) (X/Twitter)
• Generating quarto syntax within R
• An Introduction to Behavior-Driven Development in R
• Dive()ing into the hunt #rstats
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2025-W28

Supplement Resources

• Add links discussed in the episode (in place of this sentence)
• {quartose}: Dynamically Generate Quarto Syntax https://quartose.djnavarro.net/
• Cucumber: write automated tests in plain language https://cucumber.io/
• {cucumber}: An implementation of the Cucumber testing framework in R https://jakubsobolewski.com/cucumber/
• Shiny App-Packages https://mjfrigaard.github.io/shiny-app-pkgs/

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