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 Rwatcher 0.2.0: filesystem watching for R, and the engine behind Shiny auto-reloadEntire 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.htmlroxygen2 @exampleIF tag https://roxygen2.r-lib.org/articles/rd-functions.html#examples{watcher}: https://watcher.r-lib.org/fswatch https://emcrisostomo.github.io/fswatch/

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