Posts – Jeffrey S. Racine’s Personal Blog

Tired old kitchen gets a face-lift

We bought our current home in 2005 (an 1816 Heritage home). The previous owners had spruced up the kitchen to sell the house by installing maple door cabinets and engineered…

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Lighting up six cats

When life gives you lemons, you don’t have to make lemonade do you?

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Migrating from R blogdown to Quarto blogging

Ahh, the joys and sorrows of technological progress!

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My sourdough adventure

Every once in a while I find myself daydreaming about various ways to up my game in the kitchen and, recently, that dream morphed into an obsession over trying to bake seriou…

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Why This Function (WTF)? A diatribe on parametric model specification

It is not uncommon to encounter practitioners who scribble down a parametric regression model and then proceed as if their model had generated the data.¹ No model selection…

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Academic networks & public profiles

Knowledge transfer and the dissemination of research are vital components of the academic mission, yet sometimes these are afforded no more than an afterthought.

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GitHub Education and private repositories

Yesterday I was discussing workflow with a PhD student who I recently started supervising and I encouraged her to get up to speed with GitHub, which she did.

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More on blogdown

The R package blogdown “is an effort to integrate R Markdown with static website generators” according to its creator, Yihui Xie. He writes “Besides the advantage in website…

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Hugo, websites and blogdown

This week I became aware of the R package blogdown, which was released on CRAN on 2017-08-22 with the announcement following shortly thereafter. Initially, given the name, I…

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