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Dec 1, 2022 28 min

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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Issue 2022-W48 Highlights

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  1. 0:00 Introduction
  2. 1:24 Writing package tests with {doctest}
  3. 9:16 Scraping web data with {RSelenium}
  4. 16:58 Checklist for bar charts
  5. 22:30 Additional Finds
  6. 26:40 Episode Wrapup

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