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 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 Cucumber: write automated tests in plain language {cucumber}: An implementation of the Cucumber testing framework in R Shiny App-Packages Supporting the show Use the contact page at 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: Get in touch with us on social media Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon), @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) and @theRcast (X/Twitter) Mike Thomas: @mike_thomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon), @mike-thomas.bsky.social (BlueSky), and @mike_ketchbrook (X/Twitter) Music credits powered by OCRemix Chillin' with the Bros - Super Smash Bros - Jamphibious - Flames of Darkness - Mega Man ZX - Vyper -

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Issue 2025-W28 Highlights is an episode from R Weekly Highlights by Eric Nantz.

This episode is 00:47:32 long.

This episode was published on Jul 12, 2025.

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