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Exciting publication news!

I wanted to make a quick (and somewhat belated) post announcing that my paper about the life history strategies of tetrapods was …

Getting your own Google API credentials for R

Inspiration for this post My quest to make Google Drive play nice with R continues! If you’ve read my last post, you’ll know the …

Publishing to RStudio Connect with Google credentials

Inspiration for this post As a data scientist, I frequently need to pull data from disparate sources and combine it in an automated …

Scheduling R Scripts

Inspiration for this post Since starting my job as a data scientist, I found myself setting dozens of reminders on my calendar to run …

Adding featured images to posts

Inspiration for this post When I updated my website to the latest version of Hugo Academic a few months ago, I realized that I could …

Changing fonts in RMarkdown PDFs

Note: this post has been edited on 2 August 2020 - there was a typo in the indenting of the YAML. Thank you to Henry Hankins for …

Putting Google Fonts in R graphs

Inspiration for this post I’ve been working on creating a visualization cookbook for R graphics (check out this great example from the …

Accessing Mode data in R

Inspiration for this post In the past, I’ve been used to a pretty straightforward R workflow: download my data as a csv from somewhere, …

Git Workflow #1: Existing project, GitHub last

Inspiration for this post Over the coming months, I plan on sharing a series of Git workflow tutorials. Getting a Git project set up …

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