Issue 2026-W22 Highlights

The power of choice is in full effect! How you can leverage GitLab to publish your next Quarto document online, how to bring key R functional paradigms to a Python session, and adding a larger safety net with your unit tests with {mutagen} 0.2.0. 

Episode Links 

• This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @jonocarroll@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy (Bluesky) & @carroll_jono (X/Twitter)
• Deploying Quarto documents with GitLab
• Functions over Idioms - Writing R in Python with rfuns
• muttest 0.2.0: More Mutators, Better Reporting, and Parallel Execution
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W22

Supplement Resources

• Data Science at the Command Line https://datascienceatthecommandline.com/
• DevOps for Data Science https://do4ds.com/
• {pak} System Requirements https://pak.r-lib.org/reference/sysreqs.html

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