R Weekly Highlights

Issue 2024-W13 Highlights

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How a recent pivot in one of the most popular testing frameworks in R unlocks mocking once again, bringing robust grammar checks to your R development environment with rspell, and flex your Shiny and HTML design muscles with flexbox.

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  • This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (X/Twitter)
  • Update on mocking for testing R packages
  • {rspell} Are you writing in a foreign language? The RStudio spelling dictionary setting is not sufficient to correct grammar errors. Try the {rspell} package to grammar-proof your notebooks and documentation straight on RStudio without copying-pasting.
  • 3MW (Aligning content with flexboxes)
  • Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W13

    • Supplement Resources

    • testthat 3.2.0 re-introduced mocking after it was removed in 2019. The PR with Hadley's commentary https://github.com/r-lib/testthat/pull/1739#issuecomment-1428027869

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