In episode 210 of the R Weekly Highlights podcast: The Positron IDE has officially been released after two years of intense development, and we share what excites us the most. Plus a new tool in your Shiny testing toolbox to bridge the gap between server-side and dynamic updating the user interface, and an entry point to making that URL of your Shiny app set inputs on the fly, a topic one of your hosts has been investigating for quite some time!
Episode Links

• This week's curator: Colin Fay - @colinfay@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @colinfay.bsky.social (Bluesky) & @_ColinFay (X/Twitter)
• Announcing Positron, a new Data Science IDE
• {shinytesters}: Updating Inputs in testServer
• Adding Shiny app’s parameters to the URL
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2025-W34

Supplement Resources

• The Test Set Podcast https://posit.co/thetestset/
• Continue extension https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Continue.continue
• shinytesters getting started vignette https://ashbaldry.github.io/shinytesters/articles/shinytesters.html
• Eric's shinystate R package https://github.com/rpodcast/shinystate

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