About this episode
The episode discusses R upgrades, code refactoring with Jarl, and preventing code smells in testing suites.
A friendly reminder on checking customization when upgrading R, how refactoring may not be so tedious when using the Jarl utility, and honest takes on various code smells you can prevent in your next testing suite. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batoolmm.bsky.social (Bluesky) & @batool664 (X/Twitter) The Lurking Dangers of the R Version Update Refactoring with Jarl: a coffee chat 11 Test Smells That Make Your Tests Lie to You Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W24 Supplement Resources {renv} - Project environments in R https://rstudio.github.io/renv/index.html rig - The R installation manager https://github.com/r-lib/rig 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…
People in this episode
Host: Eric Nantz
Topics covered
- R programming
- software upgrade
- code refactoring
- testing
- code smells
Keywords
- R version update
- refactoring
- Jarl utility
- test smells
- renv
- rig
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