R Weekly Highlights

Issue 2022-W48 Highlights

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A new approach to adding package tests with {doctest}, scraping data from dynamic web pages with {RSelenium}, and a simple checklist to power up your next bar chart.

  • This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @TonyElHabr (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
  • {doctest} 0.1.0: Generate Tests from Examples Using 'roxygen' and 'testthat'
  • Webscraping with RSelenium: automate your browser actions
  • A simple checklist for bar plots
  • Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W48

    • Supplement Resources

    • Webscraping with RSelenium and rvest: https://ivanmillanes.netlify.app/post/2020-06-30-webscraping-with-rselenium-and-rvest/
    • RSelenium with Docker: https://callumgwtaylor.github.io/post/using-rselenium-and-docker-to-webscrape-in-r-using-the-who-snake-database
    • Shiny in Production recordings from Jumping Rivers: YouTube playlist
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