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Yihui Xie

@xieyihui

6 years

I have a dream that one day all students and researchers will forget what "formatting a paper" even means. I have a dream that one day journals and grad schools no longer have style guides. I have a dream that one day no missing $ is inserted, and \hbox is never overfull.

Posit PBC

@posit_pbc

6 years

Announcing the 1st Bookdown Contest: We cordially invite you to submit your bookdown examples, so that future authors may create more beautiful/free/open-access books and future students no longer need to struggle with formatting their dissertations!

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6 years

Trying to continue the streak in 2018 from last year ()... The R Markdown book just arrived (thanks, everyone: ) Wait, it is still July? Okay, I'm going to sleep through the rest of this year.

Yihui Xie

@xieyihui

7 years

It seems I made it, and it's easy to summarize my 2017: Another year, another #rstats package (blogdown), another book, and still endless joy. The book has just been published by @CRCPress : (thanks @ProQuesAsker @apreshill ) Let's see what happens in 2018.

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@xieyihui

5 years

At #JSM2016 I showed a voice-activated Shiny app (). Today 11:55am I'll show an R Markdown example activated by camera (face detection): If you can't come to my talk, you can play with it by yourself: #JSM2019

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@xieyihui

8 years

My #rstudioconf slides: 1) Advanced Rmd 2) blogdown 3) Extending Rmd

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@xieyihui

7 years

The blogdown book package just arrived at my door (this sounds similar to last year ). Not sure why they sent the expensive hardback copies this time, but it feels good to have something solid in my hands at the end of a year.

Yihui Xie

@xieyihui

8 years

The bookdown book package just arrived at my door. Love the Alegreya & Source Code Pro fonts on paper. Also happy that the book is so thin!

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@xieyihui

7 years

It seems I made it, and it's easy to summarize my 2017: Another year, another #rstats package (blogdown), another book, and still endless joy. The book has just been published by @CRCPress : (thanks @ProQuesAsker @apreshill ) Let's see what happens in 2018.

blogdown: Creating Websites with R Markdown

A guide to creating websites with R Markdown and the R package blogdown.

bookdown.org

Yihui Xie

@xieyihui

8 years

One year, one package, one book, and endless joy. That basically summarizes my 2016. I think I'll be able to repeat the pattern in 2017.

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@xieyihui

8 years

The bookdown book package just arrived at my door. Love the Alegreya & Source Code Pro fonts on paper. Also happy that the book is so thin!

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@xieyihui

6 years

I guess I spent 30 hours in total on revamping (with help from @chrisderv and @ustcer_ztc ), among which 6 hours were spent on creating a single D3 bubble chart on the tags page (yes, I'm an absolute beginner of D3) 😂

bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown

The platform bookdown.org is provided by RStudio for authors to publish books online for free. The bookdown package is an open-source R package that facilitates writing books and long-form articles...

bookdown.org

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@posit_pbc

6 years

We have revamped the bookdown website (). Please come and see the 200 free and open-source books! Learn more about how you can contribute more books to or help us improve the website at

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@xieyihui

7 years

Slides of my #rstudioconf talk on blogdown: Sorry, I have to confess that I lied (apparently) when I said I could type insanely fast with HHKB. The HHKB was not even connected to my laptop... I added the truth to the slides. Enjoy!

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@xieyihui

8 years

One year, one package, one book, and endless joy. That basically summarizes my 2016. I think I'll be able to repeat the pattern in 2017.

Posit PBC

@posit_pbc

8 years

Announcing bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown.

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@xieyihui

8 years

1-mo dreaming, 3-day hacking & finally I can create Rmd-based HTML slides that I truly love ❤️ Presentation Ninja ⚔

GitHub - yihui/xaringan: Presentation Ninja 幻灯忍者 · 写轮眼

Presentation Ninja 幻灯忍者 · 写轮眼. Contribute to yihui/xaringan development by creating an account on GitHub.

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@xieyihui

8 years

Finally finished documenting the xaringan pkg for Rmd/remark.js-based slides w/ another weekend Now I can sleep well

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@xieyihui

8 years

@bcaffo @DrJWolfson @drob @rdpeng @TrestleJeff @tslumley @jtleek @thosjleeper @JennyBryan @HoloMarkeD I don't want this thread to be lost, so I put together all facts about Jeff Leek in a post:

Some Facts about Jeff Leek - Yihui Xie | 谢益辉

Note: What other facts about Jeff Leek do you “know”? Please feel free to click the link “Edit this page” in the navigation menu and submit a pull request on GitHub, or tweet …

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@xieyihui

8 years

Preparing the first CRAN release of bookdown. Pls help us test it as thoroughly as you can:

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@xieyihui

8 years

Link to my slides of the htmlwidgets talk at #JSM2016 : Even I felt funny that only "make America great again" worked

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@xieyihui

8 years

Improved math support in bookdown: You can cross-reference equations now. All your equations are belong to us!

2.1 Markdown syntax | bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown

A guide to authoring books with R Markdown, including how to generate figures and tables, and insert cross-references, citations, HTML widgets, and Shiny apps in R Markdown. The book can be exported...

bookdown.org

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@xieyihui

6 years

@sctyner @hadleywickham @tslumley @dataandme @alice_data Here it is: tidy_name = function(x) { x = tolower(substr(abbreviate(x), 1, 4)) paste(c(x, rep('r', 5 - nchar(x))), collapse = '') } tidy_name('Sam Tyner') # [1] "smtyr" tidy_name('Hadley') # [1] "hdlyr" tidy_name('Yihui Xie') # [1] "yihxr"

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@xieyihui

9 years

Those at #rstatsnyc must have heard of bookdown now. Best time to write a book was 20 yrs ago; second best is now

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@xieyihui

7 years

@_ColinFay @dataandme A quick knitr tip: when you use echo=FALSE and results="hide", you almost surely mean a single option include=FALSE (i.e. hide everything).

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@xieyihui

6 years

@OilGains Yes, it definitely would be. Next project "notedown"? :)

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@xieyihui

8 years

An online Shiny tutorial by @Dreamunter

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@xieyihui

7 years

Can anyone help me design a hex sticker for blogdown? I'm very poor at graphic design... Thanks!

GitHub - rstudio/blogdown: Create Blogs and Websites with R Markdown

Create Blogs and Websites with R Markdown. Contribute to rstudio/blogdown development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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@xieyihui

6 years

@asimumba_ Congratulations! You finally discovered one of the top secrets about the RStudio IDE: the whole thing is a web browser!

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@xieyihui

9 years

So glad R 3.2.5 is released instead of 3.2.4-revised-final "revised" is always bad in naming

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@xieyihui

6 years

@_ColinFay .. as documented in Section 3.1.3 of the R Markdown book: And dropdown tabs are coming in the next version or rmarkdown:

Feature Request: Dropdown Options in Tabsets · Issue #1116 · rstudio/rmarkdown

For tabsets created in an HTML document by rmarkdown, tabs are by default displayed horizontally, like so: However, with a little bit of tweaking of the HTML, you can turn the tabset into a dropdow...

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Yihui Xie

@xieyihui

4 years

@jaredlander @baptnz See ?knitr::opts_template (although the syntax is not as succinct as bang-bang-bang). It was added in 2012:

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Yihui Xie

@xieyihui

8 years

Also added theorem and proof environments to bookdown: I think I'm ready to move to my next big project now.

2.2 Markdown extensions by bookdown | bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R...

A guide to authoring books with R Markdown, including how to generate figures and tables, and insert cross-references, citations, HTML widgets, and Shiny apps in R Markdown. The book can be exported...

bookdown.org

Yihui Xie

@xieyihui

8 years

Improved math support in bookdown: You can cross-reference equations now. All your equations are belong to us!

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@xieyihui

7 years

@sctyner @cpsievert @nature @NatureNews knitr::write_bib() writes out the bib entries of all packages loaded in the current R session by default (you can certainly add more if you like). You won't miss any citations next time, Sam.

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@xieyihui

10 years

Slides of my #JSM2014 talk "Reproducible Research Is Dead, Long Live Reproducible Research!"

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@xieyihui

6 years

@f2harrell I'm seriously interested in this idea. In fact, I have been thinking about the similar thing since 2012, and I believe the (software) infrastructure is mature enough now. I'm hoping to start experimenting with a certain existing journal next year (wish I had 48 hours a day).

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@xieyihui

8 years

Protip: don't ride roller coaster at Harry Potter when you have a 2-hour tutorial to teach & two talks to give the next day at #rstudioconf

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6 years

@jafflerbach @AlexCEngler I noticed scrollama when it came out in 2017 and also thought for a few minutes about integrating it into R Markdown. Since two more people showed interest, I'll reconsider it this year!

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@xieyihui

8 years

I'll give a talk on R Markdown (books/websites/slides/dashboards etc) at K-State U next Thursday Welcome to stop by

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@xieyihui

8 years

GIF density of the #useR2016 bookdown talk will be 10/14 Enjoy! Good luck Tidy Wickham!

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@xieyihui

9 years

Went to @kwbroman 's minimal make tutorial for the N+1 time because I can never remember if it is $@, $<, or $^...

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Yihui Xie

@xieyihui

10 years

If you upgraded to OS X Yosemite and have problems with LaTeX, RStudio, LyX, or any GUI apps that need PATH, see http://t.co/HfkYEJXnZS

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@xieyihui

7 years

On my loooong flight to Melbourne Data Science Week: (1st time visiting Oz!) See u in 24 hrs! @visnut @robjhyndman

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@xieyihui

6 years

@bio_diverse If you want to publish with @CRC_MathStats : If you want to self-publish: and (thanks to @pabloc_ds )

How to self-publish a book: Customizing Bookdown

Centered around Bookdown, we will review some non-standard customizations in order to self-publish a book.

blog.datascienceheroes.com

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@xieyihui

3 years

@patilindrajeets Escape a normal space and you'll get a non-breaking space, i.e., "\ " gives you " " when the output is HTML, and "~" when the output is LaTeX. You only need to type two characters instead of the obscure six.

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@xieyihui

6 years

@juliasilge I have wasted so many hours on the installation and configuration of rJava again and again (even though I don't use it myself) that I finally decided to completely give up. When checking my rev dependencies, I just ignore pkgs that depend on rJava.

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@xieyihui

9 years

I heard someone behind me said like "they (the restaurant) are going to git stash us outside before they git commit us inside" #shinydevcon

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@xieyihui

8 years

I used this GIF a few times before but it was not until I saw this Github issue that I felt I made good use of it.

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@xieyihui

8 years

Back from vacation. First update.packages(ask=F), then warm up by merging pull requests. Feels good other ppl continue my work when I'm away

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@xieyihui

9 years

Besides stringsAsFactors = HELLNO, we should also have options(warnPartialMatchDollar = HELLYES) #rstats

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@xieyihui

10 years

Ladies and gentlemen, I've said this before: require() is the wrong way to load an R package; use library() instead #useR2014

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@xieyihui

7 years

I'll give a talk on blogdown in the Dept of Stats @UNLincoln (49 Hardin Hall NW at 3pm on Sep 27th). Feel free to attend if you're nearby.

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@xieyihui

8 years

Sometimes I feel the "programming" side of literate programming can be far more interesting than Knuth's orig idea

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@xieyihui

8 years

It seems ifelse and ==TRUE are unnecessary (nitpicking @askdrstats ' #rstats code #JSM2016 )

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@xieyihui

8 years

When can we burn partial matching in R? Just bitten by this for the N+1 time 🔥🔥🔥 `$.list` really should be function(x, name) { x[[name]] }

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@xieyihui

6 years

@_R_Foundation Wow, today I just learned that R core actually had a blog! That's great. Things are getting better and better! 👏

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@xieyihui

9 years

Received 3 pull requests so far fixing my typos in bookdown () Copyeditors crowdsourced, nice

Pull requests · rstudio/bookdown

Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown - Pull requests · rstudio/bookdown

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@xieyihui

7 years

@juliasilge @ma_salmon @jtleek Just spent two hours migrating Simply Stats and pretty much done now. I'll try to document the process next week:

4.1 From Jekyll | blogdown: Creating Websites with R Markdown

A guide to creating websites with R Markdown and the R package blogdown.

bookdown.org

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@xieyihui

6 years

@apreshill @jafflerbach @AlexCEngler I can't resist sticker-driven development (especially when it is a llama looking at me). Chances are I'll start looking into it this afternoon!

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@xieyihui

4 years

@apreshill @kanishkamisra @jannikbuhr This problem is so bad that I have to break my rule of only using Twitter on Wednesday---I just pushed a fix for it, and will truly appreciate it if you could try it out:

Update link to academic theme by erikriverson · Pull Request #475 · rstudio/blogdown

The academic theme repository URL has been updated. The existing URL redirects to the Hugo module (no longer the theme).

github.com

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@xieyihui

8 years

@hadleywickham @ericJpedersen @rstudio There is an option knitr::opts_knit$set(root.dir = "YourDir"). Also a pkg

rprojroot: Finding Files in Project Subdirectories

Robust, reliable and flexible paths to files below a project root. The 'root' of a project is defined as a directory that matches a certain criterion, e.g., it contains a certain regular file.

cran.r-project.org

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Yihui Xie

@xieyihui

8 years

@JennyBryan As a non-native English speaker, I often struggle with saying this word. That's why I changed my career to software engineer.

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@xieyihui

6 years

@TexanDhillon @BecomingDataSci @dataandme @chrisalbon @hadleywickham Yes, R Markdown (knitr) does support Python:

2.7 Other language engines | R Markdown: The Definitive Guide

The first official book authored by the core R Markdown developers that provides a comprehensive and accurate reference to the R Markdown ecosystem. With R Markdown, you can easily create reproduci...

bookdown.org

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Yihui Xie

@xieyihui

8 years

#useR2016 Rmd tutorial attendees, pls buy @kwbroman @ijlyttle beers for me. Only 2 days' prep and a wonderful job!!

Karl Broman

@kwbroman

8 years

@xieyihui Tutorial went well. There were like 80-100 people, I think. Embarrassed about the unmentioned deps in my examples. 😳 @ijlyttle

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@xieyihui

5 years

@polesasunder and you'll soon regret learning it... Partial matching is the one single thing I hate most about R. FYI If you end up hating it as much as I do, I have a simple helper function xfun::strict_list():

An Introduction to xfun - Yihui Xie | 谢益辉

After writing about 20 R packages, I found I had accumulated several utility functions that I used across different packages, so I decided to extract them into a separate package. Previously I had …

yihui.org

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@xieyihui

9 years

Yep, this is a tiny package that I enjoyed developing I love the HTML style @EdwardTufte

GitHub - rstudio/tufte: Tufte Styles for R Markdown Documents

Tufte Styles for R Markdown Documents. Contribute to rstudio/tufte development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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@xieyihui

8 years

Another moment when I thought I had to bite the bullet but turns out I don't have to: Yeah!

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@xieyihui

8 years

The first time I have answered my own question on StackOverflow (not really a Q to me but just to share solution)

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@xieyihui

8 years

"Authors: Chester Ismay, Albert Y. Kim and you?" Yes!! This (collaboration) is one of my greatest motivations of bookdown! @old_man_chester

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@xieyihui

4 years

@andrewheiss @jent103 @apreshill I added this tweet in a comment in blogdown and finally managed to remove it two years later: Please let me know if you still suffer from any blogdown problems with the current version: (more improvements to come in next version...)

Release blogdown 0.21 · rstudio/blogdown

NEW FEATURES The Knit button in RStudio finally works with blogdown now. My apologies to those who have desperately clicked the Knit button or pressed Ctrl + Shift + K in vain over the years. I c...

github.com

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Yihui Xie

@xieyihui

7 years

@nicoleradziwill For hackers, the knitr one; for average book authors, the bookdown one; for general R Markdown users, wait for my next book :)

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@xieyihui

7 years

@BarkleyBG @o_guest @hadleywickham Creating a Markdown-based journal is one of my life goals. I think I'm getting close to start fulfilling my dream.

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@xieyihui

7 years

@_ColinFay @JennyBryan I must be too old now and my memory has become so poor. I seem to misremember that the letter C in CRAN stands for "Comprehensive"...

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@xieyihui

7 years

@lorenzwalthert There are certainly some objects hidden behind the scenes, so you have to rm(list = ls(all = TRUE)).

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@xieyihui

8 years

We cannot be friends if you don't use UTF8 Cannot stand this 3-yr old yaml bug any more. Pull sword or pull request?

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@xieyihui

3 years

@f2harrell @kwbroman @IsabellaGhement @VUDataScience You need to call rmarkdown::render('test.Rmd'), instead of doing the 2-step knitr::knit('test.Rmd') + rmarkdown::render(''). knitr::knit() doesn't know the target output format will be HTML, so takes screenshots of plotly.

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Yihui Xie

@xieyihui

5 years

@statsgen @TremblayTalks @rstudio Yes, the talk will be recorded and the video should be available a few days later. @DahShuInfo is the host and will post the video once it is ready (presumably on Youtube).

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@xieyihui

8 years

In future we should organize a session on historical ideas on stat graphics. Always fascinated by scenes like this

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@xieyihui

6 years

@leonawicz @rstudio Thanks! If there are any topics that you are particularly interested in, please feel free to let me know. The hardest part of giving talks or tutorials is to guess what exactly the audience wants to learn.

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@xieyihui

8 years

The best GIF was on page 9 and unfortunately it was not loaded during the #useR2016 talk :( Anyway, great karaoke!

Hadley Wickham

@hadleywickham

8 years

Bookdown slides by @xieyihui : . Great way to write books #rstats ! #user2016

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8 years

[Pandoc] is only available for a very limited range of platforms... Read "Solaris For the Win!" hard-to-satisfy hehe

requiring pandoc is not portable · wch/r-source@74c8486

git-svn-id: https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk@71497 00db46b3-68df-0310-9c12-caf00c1e9a41

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@xieyihui

8 years

@_inundata @kwbroman This has finally become a real thing 😂

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@xieyihui

5 years

@Atsushi776 To my knowledge, you are the first person who has discovered the most essential technical (dirty) hack in the xaringan source code and mentioned it in public. You are an overqualified ninja now.

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@xieyihui

8 years

Just about to write a func to convert integers to Roman numerals 😩 Typed as.ro in RStudio, and auto-completion says no need to waste time 😂

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Yihui Xie

@xieyihui

8 years

Just to show @kwbroman a couple of examples of saying no:

CSS classes for caption labels · Issue #251 · rstudio/bookdown

Hi Yihui, as indicated in our previous communication, I'm developing a custom HTML output format extending bookdown::html_document2. One of the things I would like to customize is the appearanc...

github.com

Karl Broman

@kwbroman

8 years

Grant me the strength to say no, the courage to say no, and the wisdom to say no to new responsibilities. #academics

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5 years

@andrewheiss @nickchk To Nick: use latex_fragment as the output format, instead of pdf_document. Then you get the body of the LaTeX output document (which you can \input{} into other .tex documents), not the full LaTeX document. To Andrew: to use biblatex, pdf_document: citation_package: biblatex

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6 years

@LeafyEricScott I have a Shiny app for the conversion (between YAML/TOML/JSON): If you don't want to run it locally, I have an online version:

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@xieyihui

6 years

@SuzanBaert I have to confess that I didn't know background images could be "vectorized" in CSS. So thanks a lot for sharing the trick!

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@xieyihui

10 years

Prof rejected my package because 'Markdown' was not single-quoted in Title/Description. Speechless.

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@xieyihui

9 years

That moment when you try to copy & paste other people's R code but have to get rid of "> "... http://t.co/quLT9VlRFt

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@xieyihui

10 years

I just heard from a friend that the renowned professor complained "It's" must be "It is" in his email to CRAN. #TheSkyIsBDRsLimit

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8 years

Two ugly single quotes took me about two hours to debug & create an 18 lines minimal example from a 5237 lines .tex

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@xieyihui

8 years

Many LaTeX packages are useful, but most docs look like this \backslashes \everywhere \and \no \single \example!

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@xieyihui

10 years

bug report! this doesn't work! library(dplyr); huge_crowd %>% poster_hallway #useR2014

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Yihui Xie

@xieyihui

4 years

@rmflight @djnavarro @sharlagelfand Right. I'm sure I can find a few of my git commits that remove the leftover `print()` or `cat()` commands during debugging. I use them all the time. When they are suppressed for some reason (e.g. by R CMD check), I use writeLines(capture.output(object), "~/Downloads/debug.txt").

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Yihui Xie

@xieyihui

6 years

@RichBonneauNYU Hard work on science? No question asked. Hard work on formatting a paper for a specific journal or institution? Probably not worth the effort for all authors. Problem is, currently the format is often a blocking issue (i.e. you can't publish without formatting).

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Yihui Xie

@xieyihui

10 years

I guess I'll avoid institutions in the future that require me to prepare nine forms to get reimbursed after they invite me to do talks.

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Yihui Xie

@xieyihui

6 years

@S_Owla @UUnconf @cpsievert @iqis_gnahz I only read Twitter on Wednesday afternoons, so I didn't see this tweet yesterday. This is the first time that a package has been announced when I wrote its first line of code only about 25 hours ago! Please use with caution. Even the package name may change in the future :)

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Yihui Xie

@xieyihui

6 years

@yoniceedee @apreshill @ijlyttle @cantabile @RoelandtN42 @rensa_co @JenRichmondPhD @WeAreRLadies I'm surprised that you still haven't got an answer, with the help of so many experts in my eyes. I'm never a fan of YAML, but... I'm afraid you have to learn YAML anyway. Answer: params: trials: 10 k: [3, 7, 10, 20] Here is my 1-min YAML intro:

B.2 R Markdown | bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown

A guide to authoring books with R Markdown, including how to generate figures and tables, and insert cross-references, citations, HTML widgets, and Shiny apps in R Markdown. The book can be exported...

bookdown.org

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Yihui Xie

@xieyihui

7 years

@sctyner @Wikipedia That is because of the 'alt' attribute of <img>. It is a massively (or the most?) undervalued attribute in HTML. Not many people realize its importance (esp important for blind people).

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Yihui Xie

@xieyihui

6 years

@archidisign Not sure if I'd count as "successful", but successful people are often symbolized, while they are still humans anyway. I believe the vast majority of humans have inner demons. Successful people just dare to look at them, and kill or accept them. Other people deny or run away.

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Yihui Xie

@xieyihui

9 years

@simplystats Jekyll is good, but not cool. You should have waited for me to work on a new blog engine based on R Markdown.

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Yihui Xie

@xieyihui

4 years

@jaredlander @cpsievert I can never understand why a non-standard link is so much more important than our years of hard work (e.g. thousands of lines of code) that a link alone can get a whole package rejected (not to mention that I disagree that HTTP status codes other than 200 are wrong and must die).

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Yihui Xie

@xieyihui

9 years

@kwbroman @drob I don't always answer knitr questions if you ask me directly but @JennyBryan is on my whitelist. Use knitr::knit_exit().

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Yihui Xie

@xieyihui

7 years

@imtaraas @dataandme @BecomingDataSci @kierisi Why not blogdown? Someday you will be able to build blogdown posts to books: Most web platforms are not good for technical writing (Medium, WordPress, ...).

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Yihui Xie

@xieyihui

5 years

@nj_tierney @statsgen @DeadTreeDude @Dale_Masch @dirk_sch knitr::write_bib() writes out the bib entries for all packages loaded in the current R session by default: e.g., you can knitr::write_bib(file = 'R-packages.bib') in your last code chunk in Rmd.

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