Issue 2025-W21 Highlights
Update: 2025-05-23
Description
Have you wanted a chance to rewrite your own history? With Git, you certainly can! We learn that and other amazing tips to supercharge your version control skills. Plus a promising new package to let your Shiny app users make the call on their preferred layouts, and how mocking is not something to dread when you build unit tests interacting with external services.
Episode Links
Episode Links
- This week's curator: Jon Calder - @jonmcalder@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter)
- Hack your way to a good Git history (SLC-RUG May) (slides)
- Introducing dockViewR 0.1.0: a layout manager for R and Shiny.
- Mock Them All: Simulate to Better Test with testthat
- Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2025-W21
- {saperpolette} Exercises (playgrounds) to go with oh (****) Git and beyond, for R users https://docs.ropensci.org/saperlipopette/
- No code data analysis with {blockr} (R/Pharma 2024 Workshop) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQvTQqcmadY
- Prototype Shiny apps in Excalidraw with Shinydraw https://github.com/MikeJohnPage/shinydraw
- Multi-language pipelines with rixpress https://brodrigues.co/posts/2025-05-13-test_rixpress.html
- R/Medicine 2025 https://rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_website/
- Fonts in R https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/05/fonts-in-r/
- Use the contact page at https://serve.podhome.fm/custompage/r-weekly-highlights/contact to send us your feedback
- R-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby, and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index.
- A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info
- Get in touch with us on social media
- Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon), @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) and @theRcast (X/Twitter)
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- Dovahkiin in Jamaica- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - M Benson, Ben Cureton - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04390
- Crysis Crystal - Megaman 9: Back in Blue - k-wix - https://backinblue.ocremix.org/music.php
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