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by yihui 3y ago
When a girl asked me 20 years ago "What a perfect date would be", I answered enthusiastically "ISO8601, of course". I'm still single today, and I don't know why. (Just kidding :)
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by yihui 6y ago
To be honest, I can feel the "cultishness" you mentioned, but I'm curious if you also feel that for R Markdown products (which are mostly irrelevant to Tidyverse). If you do, I'd love to try my best to fix that, because
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by yihui 6y ago
I'm one of the main developers of R Markdown. As @jcheng said, it is definitely not our intention to lock you in RStudio for any of our R packages. You probably can't imagine how hard I have been trying to avoid relying on RStud
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by yihui 6y ago
We have tried for almost four years without success: https://github.com/rstudio/rmarkdown/issues/1020 We did hear back from Github for a few times, but there has been no sign of progress at all. We will truly
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by yihui 6y ago
Thanks for the kind words (about me and RStudio)! Well, you might be too optimistic about people not commenting on R. Usually I tend to avoid reading HN, but I feel pretty much every single time when someone brings up anything related to R,
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by yihui 10y ago
A few differences I spotted as I quickly read the Softcover book (I'm the main author of bookdown, so I could be biased): Bookdown is built on top of R Markdown, which means it has the genes of literate programming (knitr) and Pandoc.
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by yihui 10y ago
Because PDF is for printing purposes. There could be many many problem if you copy and paste from PDF (white spaces being eaten, ligatures, curly quotes, en/em-dashes, ...; almost as bad as Word, except that PDF is beautiful). So don&#
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by yihui 10y ago
> First of all, this is for statistics based papers, not just "technical papers". The blog post is not really long, and in the fourth paragraph, I wrote: > [...] We used books and R primarily for examples in this book, but
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by yihui 10y ago
Yes, the syntax is LaTeX (thanks to MathJax). See Chapter 2 of the bookdown book: https://bookdown.org/yihui/bookdown/
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by yihui 10y ago
Just for the record, if you follow the Download RStudio link on the RStudio homepage, or go to Products -> RStudio, you will see the license clearly mentioned before you try to download RStudio. AGPL is also displayed in our Github repos
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by yihui 10y ago
It is not that we encourage a "hackish development style", but computer scientists and statisticians/data analysts are solving different problems, and statisticians' primary job is often not software development. There i
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by yihui 10y ago
Isn't this a simple instruction you give students in the very first class like "before you submit your homework, restart R session, and make sure your submission runs in the new session"? This only requires them to click a me
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by yihui 14y ago
Python will be better supported in knitr in future; for now it only has preliminary support: http://yihui.name/knitr/demo/engines/