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Lighting up six cats
When life gives you lemons, you don’t have to make lemonade do you?
Nov 18, 2023
Jeffrey S. Racine
Migrating from R blogdown to Quarto blogging
Ahh, the joys and sorrows of technological progress!
Aug 11, 2023
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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
seriously…
Dec 15, 2018
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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
.
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No model selection exercise is attempted, model uncertainty is ignored, and statements are made about the underlying process that generated the data based solely on the…
Jul 27, 2018
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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.
Jun 23, 2018
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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.
Jun 1, 2018
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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…
May 29, 2018
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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 presumed that it was an R package that…
May 27, 2018
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