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2017
2017-12-09 How I Learned R
2017-12-08 The Spreadsheet Lady
2017-12-07 Why Are Some Good Old Ideas Buried in the History of Statistical Graphics?
2017-12-07 Reproducible Research With A Marmot
2017-12-07 How Twitter Shaped Us
2017-12-07 Embed A Live Video of Yourself Through Your Camera in HTML5 Slides
2017-12-05 A Desiccated baseR-er's Snowflakes via Base R Graphics
2017-12-04 The #1 Reason Why I Don't Want to Work in Academia
2017-12-04 Please Help Me Test TinyTeX: A Lightweight LaTeX Distribution
2017-11-22 Thanks, Elio Campitelli, for Testing My Guess!
2017-11-22 Study the Hugo-XMin Theme If You Wish to Customize A blogdown Website
2017-11-22 One Little Thing: the knitr Chunk Option include=FALSE
2017-11-22 Generate A Verbatim Code Chunk or Inline R Expression in knitr Output
2017-11-21 Thanks, Sergio Oller, for Closing Your Own Pull Request!
2017-11-21 Ask Only (?) 12 Questions to Fix An Issue
2017-11-20 Thanks, TJ Mahr, for Reading the Pandoc Documentation!
2017-11-19 301 Redirect: The Most Important Technique in Maintaining Websites
2017-11-16 One Step Ahead
2017-11-16 On Saying No
2017-11-15 No Need to Upgrade to Pandoc 2.0 (Yet)
2017-11-02 x[matrix(ncol = 2)]
2017-11-01 Thanks, Rebecca Condit, for Proofreading the blogdown Manuscript!
2017-10-25 Buy the Case and Return the Pearl
2017-10-24 I'm Also A Desiccated baseR-er Like Karl Broman
2017-10-23 R Package Vignettes: One Fundamental Contribution of Duncan Murdoch
2017-10-21 Thanks, Claus Ekstrøm, for Watching My Github Repo!
2017-10-19 The 501st Reminder About Reproducible Examples
2017-10-19 Schedule R Code to Be Executed Periodically in the Current R Session
2017-10-19 A Few Joyful Moments of A Software Developer
2017-10-13 The blogdown Logo
2017-10-13 Are These Still The R Manuals I Knew?!
2017-10-13 "I thought it was obvious to you," he said. "No."
2017-10-10 Thanks, Karl, for Cross-referencing on Github!
2017-10-09 Thanks, Jean-Olivier Irisson, for Mentioning Cross-posting!
2017-10-09 Emoji Stats of Github Issues?
2017-10-04 Different Degrees of Freedom for Bloggers and Book Authors
2017-10-03 The Downside of Sharing A Personal Favorite
2017-10-03 Help Me: xaringan / remark.js CSS Themes?
2017-09-29 Thanks, Max, for Not Emailing or Messaging Me!
2017-09-19 One Little Thing: knitr::fig_chunk()
2017-09-18 The Minimal Reproducible Example Paradox
2017-09-15 Pull Requests as A Teaching Tool
2017-09-15 One Little Thing: knitr::imgur_upload()
2017-09-12 Some Articles on Time Management
2017-09-11 The bookdown Book in Retrospect
2017-09-11 Redundancy in "if (x == TRUE)"
2017-09-11 Python: The Incredibly Confusing Language?
2017-09-06 Getting Rid of the .DS_Store Crap
2017-09-04 Am(az|us)ingly Arrogant
2017-08-31 We Cannot Be Friends If You Share Source Code As Screenshots
2017-08-31 Twitter Threads vs Blogging
2017-08-31 Incremental Slides with xaringan / remark.js
2017-08-29 Why xaringan / remark.js for HTML5 Presentations?
2017-08-24 StackOverflow First, Github Issues Second, and Emails Last
2017-08-22 Jump-start A Pull Request
2017-08-22 Generate A Summary for A Post in Hugo
2017-07-12 Number of Lines of Code
2017-07-06 On Syntax Highlighting
2017-07-03 How Was the JSM Attendees Data Leaked?
2017-06-09 On Formality
2017-06-08 The Ghost Printer Behind Top-level R Expressions
2017-06-07 Consider Netlify instead of GitHub Pages for Your Static Websites
2017-06-06 Rediscovering Rd2roxygen
2017-05-22 Finally, Four Backticks on Github
2017-05-19 A Note on on.exit()
2017-05-18 How I Find, Manage, and Use GIFs
2017-05-17 When in Doubt, Upgrade
2017-05-16 A Note on missing()
2017-04-14 Some Facts about Jeff Leek
2014
2014-11-18 A Letter of Recommendation for Nan Xiao
2014-07-26 library() vs require() in R
2014-07-26 A Few Notes on UseR! 2014
2013
2013-10-19 Markdown or LaTeX?
2013-09-30 Testing R Packages
2013-09-05 After Three Months I Cannot Reproduce My Own Book
2013-07-21 My first Bioconductor conference (2013)
2013-06-27 R Package Versioning
2013-06-10 You Do Not Need to Tell Me I Have A Typo in My Documentation
2013-06-03 A Few Tips for Writing an R Book
2013-04-12 Travis CI for R! (not yet)
2013-04-07 Travis CI for R?
2013-03-14 On ENAR, or Statistical Meetings in General
2013-02-17 Contribute to The R Journal with LyX/knitr
2013-02-10 Publishing from R+knitr to WordPress
2013-01-26 Code Pollution With Command Prompts
2013-01-05 Find Out Available Usernames with R
2012
2012-12-10 ICERM Reproducibility Workshop: Day 1
2012-11-23 IPython vs knitr, or Python vs R
2012-10-30 Can We Live Without Backslashes?
2012-10-29 Visiting FHCRC, JHSPH and Meeting Xi'an
2012-10-29 Build Static HTML Help Pages for R Packages
2012-10-03 A Quick Note On Large 2D Data
2012-09-10 R Package Vignettes with Markdown
2012-08-07 For the Stupid Password Rules at Iowa State
2012-06-25 Making Reproducible Research Enjoyable
2012-05-08 Learn formatR in Two Minutes
2012-05-01 How to Make HTML5 Slides with knitr
2012-04-22 Fancy HTML5 Slides with knitr and pandoc
2012-03-15 Ideas on A Really Fast Statistics Journal
2011
2011-12-12 How to Become an Efficient and Collaborative R Programmer
2011-12-01 knitr: Elegant, flexible and fast dynamic report generation with R
2011-08-16 The fun Package: Use R for Fun!
2011-05-25 Sweave and pgfSweave in LyX 2.0.x (experimental)
2011-04-30 Produce Authentic Math Formulas in R Graphics
2011-04-09 New versions of GGobi and rggobi for Windows users
2011-01-06 formatR update (0.1-6)
2011-01-04 Customizing the Theme of Your R HTML Help
2011-01-01 Happy New Year with R (2011, Fireworks!)
2010
2010-12-22 A Special Graphics Device in R: the Null Device
2010-12-03 formatR update (0.1-5)
2010-12-01 Rd2roxygen: Convert Rd to roxygen documentation
2010-10-30 How to Start Using (pgf)Sweave in LyX in One Minute
2010-10-24 Grabbing Tables in Webpages Using the XML Package
2010-10-17 On the Gory Loops in R
2010-09-28 A Slider to Control Two Plotting Windows
2010-09-11 SyntaxHighlighter Brush for the R Language
2010-08-22 Numbered Figure/Table Captions in beamer
2010-08-14 Auto-completion in Notepad++ for R Script
2010-07-21 My Talk on Animations at useR! 2010 (NIST, Gaithersburg)
2010-04-17 alphahull: an R Package for Alpha-Convex Hull
2010-04-15 R is an Epic Fail?
2010-04-13 formatR: farewell to ugly R code
2010-04-05 Rules of Thumb to Meet R Gurus in the Help List
2010-04-03 Demonstrating the Power of F Test with gWidgets
2010-03-28 Looking for Software Paths in Windows Registry
2010-03-24 Font Families for the R PDF Device
2010-03-24 A Demo for the Ratio Estimation in Sampling Survey (Animation)
2010-03-23 R Tips in Stat 511
2010-03-12 Guess the Random Seed
2010-02-18 Press Enter in LyX Sweave as You Wish
2009
2009-12-31 Happy New Year with R
2009-12-24 Merry Christmas Using R
2009-11-11 Create Animations in PDF Documents Using R
2009-10-19 swfDevice, RGoogleTrends, FlashMXML, and SVGAnnotation
2009-10-10 50000 Revisions Committed to R
2009-09-26 How to Import MS Excel Data into R
2009-08-31 Formatting Decimals in Texts with R
2009-08-29 Counterintuitive Results in Flipping Coins
2009-06-12 Simulation of Burning Fire in R
2009-06-10 Creating Tag Cloud Using R and Flash / JavaScript (SWFObject)
2009-06-04 Insert Google Adsense Code in bbPress Forum
2009-05-30 Convert MySQL Database to UTF-8 in Wordpress
2009-03-31 Enhanced tidy.source() (Preserve Some Comments)
2009-03-16 Identify Data Points in Off-Screen R Graphics Devices
2009-01-07 When Bell-shaped is Far Far Away from Gaussian
2008
2008-11-05 Brownian Motion Using Google Visualization API and R
2008-10-20 Quincunx (Galton box, Bean machine) in R
2008-10-15 Dynamically Selecting Points Using R
2008-10-12 How to Open a File from a Hyperlink
2008-09-23 Eyeball Test to Identify An Unfair Coin (or A False Record)
2008-09-18 To Observe Interactions in Bubble Plots
2008-09-06 To See A Circle in A Pile of Sand
2008-08-14 Statistical Animations Using R - A Talk at useR! 2008
2008-07-21 Never Lonely
2008-07-07 Girls / Women are Talkative?
2008-06-20 Set framerate in pdf2swf
2008-06-15 Dirt in the Mouse & Glivenko-Cantelli Theorem
2008-06-13 Flash Animations by saveSWF() in Package animation
2008-06-04 Dokuwiki Plugins animation and math Added
2008-05-31 AniWiki: Animations in Statistics
2008-05-13 Handbook of Computational Statistics
2008-05-11 Random Number Generation on the Glasses (A Natural RNG)
2008-05-09 To See A World In A Range of Function
2008-05-02 On Scientific Writing
2008-04-28 How Did I Notice the Notice from Hadley Wickham
2008-04-26 Finding Splitting Values for A Regression Tree
2008-04-26 Animations for Spatial Patterns (simulation only!)
2008-01-20 Going Home
2008-01-17 R Doc: Using R for Data Analysis and Graphics
2008-01-11 Structural Equation Modeling: Where Are Advantages?
2008-01-09 Obligation for Statistics to Draw Conclusions?
2008-01-01 At the Beginning of the Year 2008
2008-01-01 A Cartoonizer Web Site
2007
2007-12-31 Line Breaks for LaTeX Code in R Documentation Files
2007-12-29 Be Careful with the Value Returned in R Functions
2007-12-28 When Does Statistics Become Meaningless?
2007-12-27 Listening is A Better Way to Improve Pronunciation
2007-12-26 On Christmas Eve...
2007-12-24 Availability of the PNG Device in R
2007-12-22 Make Optical Illusions in R Graphics System
2007-12-20 Terrible Functional Data Analysis?
2007-12-17 Updating the Web Site Animated Statistics Using R
2007-12-03 Funny Mark Twain
2007-11-21 Quick Notes for VI Editor
2007-11-12 Package animation: Statistical Animations in R
2007-11-08 Statistical Modelling: Fitting Models or Fitting Data?
2007-10-29 Machine Learning: Machine is Learning Like a Human Being
2007-10-25 Animations in Survey Sampling
2007-10-19 Slight Changes to Boadilla Theme in Beamer Class
2007-10-08 Linux Font Equivalents for Verdana, Courier New & Georgia
2007-10-05 Spring in Fall
2007-10-04 Jokes in Statistics - A Talk to be Given in CUEB (Slides & Materials)
2007-10-03 multicol -- Multi-column Pages in LaTeX
2007-10-02 Demonstration of Confidence Intervals Using R (Animated)
2007-09-23 All Models are Wrong, and Some Models are Useless
2007-09-14 Semi-transparent Colors in R: Color Image as an Example
2007-09-11 R Language Definition File for Highlight
2007-09-08 Draw A Map of China onto A Color Image
2007-09-08 A Lovely Donkey :-D
2007-09-06 Process of Minimization by Gradient Descent (2D)
2007-08-25 Dare be defeated?
2007-08-12 Tidy up your R code
