Issue 2026-W24 Highlights

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

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