Issue 2026-W28 Highlights

A set of principles to enhance testing APIs created inside R, and the engine behind automatic reloading of rendered Shiny apps becomes available for new use cases. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder - @jonmcalder@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter) Testing Your Plumber APIs from R watcher 0.2.0: filesystem watching for R, and the engine behind Shiny auto-reload Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W28 Supplement Resources {plumber2}: https://plumber2.posit.co/ {httr2}: https://httr2.r-lib.org/index.html {mirai}: https://mirai.r-lib.org/index.html {nanonext}: https://nanonext.r-lib.org/index.html roxygen2 @exampleIF tag https://roxygen2.r-lib.org/articles/rd-functions.html#examples {watcher}: https://watcher.r-lib.org/ fswatch https://emcrisostomo.github.io/fswatch/ Supporting the show 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) Mike Thomas: @mike_thomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon), @mike-thomas.bsky.social (BlueSky), and @mike_ketchbrook (X/Twitter) Music credits powered by OCRemix Relm's Weepy Loop - Final Fantasy 6 - MkVaff - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00178