October 18, 2023

Issue 2023-W42 Highlights

50 minutes

Another collection of package testing workflow nuggets you can make great use of today, the definitive guide to effective use of logging in Shiny applications from the recent Shiny in Production conference, and a cautionary tale of the potential impact of default function arguments in your downstream analytical pipelines.

Episode Links

This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @TonyElHabr (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)

Two recent enhancements to my testing workflow

Shiny In Production 2023: Effective Logging in Shiny

Note to self: be aware of functions with default arguments

Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W42

Supplement Resources

testthat 3.2.0 https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2023/10/testthat-3-2-0/

lazytest - Runs only failed tests https://github.com/cynkra/lazytest

Effective logging in Shiny GH repository https://github.com/tanho63/talk_shinyprod2023_logging

shinymetrics https://shinymetrics.com

Shiny In Production 2023: Anatomy of a Shiny app

Shiny in Production 2023: Dynamic annotations: 10 tips for better text

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