Read .R files from subfolders into .r_script_content for test access

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Student repos like dengq25/Lab_8 place R scripts in subfolders (e.g., scripts/01-scrape-page-one.R). The grading workflow had no way to access the content of these files — it only read .Rmd files from the repo root.

Changes

• New .r_script_content variable: After shared-helper-load.R runs, recursively discovers .R files in the student repo and reads their text content into .r_script_content (character vector, same format as .rmd_content). Files are read, not sourced. .r_script_files holds the discovered paths.

• Dependency scanning: The "Install student package dependencies" step now scans both .Rmd and .R files (recursively) for library()/require() calls.

• Recursive file discovery: Changed recursive = FALSE → TRUE for .Rmd discovery as well, for consistency.

Usage in tests

# Check .R scripts for code patterns (analogous to .rmd_content checks)
test_that("Ex 5: scrape_page function defined in R scripts", {
  skip_if(length(.r_script_content) == 0)
  expect_true(
    any(stringr::str_detect(.r_script_content, "scrape_page\\s*<-\\s*function"))
  )
})

Original prompt

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This section details on the original issue you should resolve

<issue_title>access .R files in subfolders</issue_title>
<issue_description>how can I access .R files in subfolders like I do access .rmd files?</issue_description>

Comments on the Issue (you are @copilot in this section)

• Fixes access .R files in subfolders #9

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