{
  "title": "In another episode of “I use R for absolutely everything,” I wrote a post on creating conference posters using R Markdown. If you’re tired of copy-pasting and manually formatting your poster, try out posterdown for reproducible, pretty posters!✨#RStats https://t.co/3cS4VFYdcj",
  "date": "2022-08-21"
}

# #rstats

> **Shilaan Alzahawi** (@shilaan01; 1669/325): In another episode of “I use R for absolutely everything,” I wrote a post on creating conference posters using R Markdown. If you’re tired of copy-pasting and manually formatting your poster, try out posterdown for reproducible, pretty posters!✨#RStats 
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> https://t.co/3cS4VFYdcj  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/shilaan01/status/1560734307450101760)

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> **Dan** (@FilmicAesthetic; 543/66): I'm working on a Shiny app that will take any poem, song lyrics, or short story as an input and produce a visualisation similar to this one I did for Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven. Interesting challenge so far!
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> Original code: https://t.co/YXw8b0FtH7
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> #dataviz #rstats https://t.co/pITEqCcDux  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/FilmicAesthetic/status/1561012367915352067)

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> **Andrea J. Phillips** (@AndreaJPhillips; 527/80): Fixed it for you. 
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> #polisci #polisciresearch #politicalscience #gradschool #academicchatter ⁦@AcademicChatter⁩ #AcademicTwitter #RStats https://t.co/hxiFbnMsoj  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/AndreaJPhillips/status/1561070600570937344)

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> **Ben Andrew** (@BenYAndrew; 383/77): I've been revisiting several probability, statistics &amp; clinical research concepts that I've learned through simulation &amp; visualization over the past years. Full list pinned below - I hope this can be helpful for others who also learn this way! #epitwitter #statstwitter #RStats  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/BenYAndrew/status/1560699669046784000)

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> **Matt Dancho (Business Science)** (@mdancho84; 369/24): Pool day with one of my favorite books, An Introduction to Statistical Learning. 
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> Here’s why I love this book. 🧵
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> #RStats https://t.co/HgmjpGtjMF  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/mdancho84/status/1561129300157407236)

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> **PhD. Verónica** (@Verukita1; 293/99): 📘Introduction to Modern Statistics (2021). Free available online book. This textbook and its supplements, including labs, and interactive tutorials.
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> 🔗https://t.co/mCwQKrRhgC
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> #Bioinformatics #neuroscience #PhD #RStats #AcademicTwitter #postdoc #OpenAccess #Statistics https://t.co/ec3tE2ZFUB  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/Verukita1/status/1560691096363372544)

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> **Vebash** (@Sciencificity; 254/42): Just gave a small workshop on working with R and SQL in RStudio for some Southern African R user groups (thanks for the invite!)
> Here’s the #RStats resources:
> Github: https://t.co/tlVUVXlkR6
> Slides: https://t.co/Wx7R0fHIfQ
> More db tutorials @ my blog: https://t.co/GYs02fpFaA  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/Sciencificity/status/1561049125084430337)

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> **Daily R Cheatsheets** (@daily_r_sheets; 206/29): Today's #rstats cheatsheet: Machine Learning Modelling in R 
> Download: https://t.co/nLBsnMUCi0 Learning Modelling in R.pdf 
> See more: https://t.co/KgJ4eggU4l 
> Contribute your own: https://t.co/KLVFg0ougL https://t.co/bYg6oheqwj  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/daily_r_sheets/status/1561231663639715843)

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> **R Markdown** (@rmarkdown; 166/39): Improve your R workflow with these must have R packages by Adrian Joseph https://t.co/bAvDnzm5tR #rstats  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/rmarkdown/status/1560911708117508098)

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# blogdown

> **Niklas Hausmann** (@NiklasHausmann; 7/2): After about 2 years of running a project website with #R #Blogdown I am absolutely loving it! 
> If anyone has tips/experience with improving or expanding blogdown sites, I'd love to hear them. 
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> Also: A new post about receiving a new piece of kit is online!
> https://t.co/burVhPY2jv https://t.co/qC7UWsXtsO  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/NiklasHausmann/status/1560572362550296576)

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> **Julio Trecenti** (@jtrecenti; 0/2): Hugo+netlify via #rstats blogdown is so fast and powerful, I feel like  https://t.co/dzkEWpgVaY  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/jtrecenti/status/1560309796951171074)

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> **tidyverse tweets** (@tidyversetweets; 0/1): R Blogdown page could not load #tidyverse #rstats https://t.co/PU1guh9a3V  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/tidyversetweets/status/1561283405173637120)

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# bookdown

> **Julian Faraway** (@JulianFaraway; 16/4): Converting from Bookdown to Quarto seemed easy at first but displayed equations, crossreferences and multipanel figures required more work: https://t.co/YESvzFq9Ck  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/JulianFaraway/status/1559865064877867008)

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> **Richard Wilkinson** (@wilkinson_rich; 4/0): @DrAlexBest I use Bookdown, which gives students the choice to download the notes as a pdf or epub file: 
> https://t.co/BBPrJqaicC
> Would recommend it.  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/wilkinson_rich/status/1560913118330511361)

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> **Stephen Wild** (@stephenjwild; 4/0): @bmwiernik @SolomonKurz Also here: https://t.co/0UfBghUwe4  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/stephenjwild/status/1560740673707319296)

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> **D. Scarnecchia** (@mountainherder; 4/0): This has culminated in the porting of one of our pieces of documentation to a Bookdown generated website, with more to come! https://t.co/2Jc0Pewt8g  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/mountainherder/status/1560362390486716416)

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> **Stephen Wild** (@stephenjwild; 3/0): @bmwiernik This might help (from @SolomonKurz): https://t.co/1R6EXwA5eu  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/stephenjwild/status/1560740247096283136)

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> **Mladen Jovanović** (@Physical_Prep; 2/1): How can the figure/table caption be "dynamic" as with the bookdown/markdown using (ref:) method? See images
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> #quartopub  @quarto_pub #rstats #bookdown https://t.co/958piOCeR7  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/Physical_Prep/status/1560325803098996737)

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> **James Steele, PhD (ジェームズスティールさん)** (@JamesSteeleII; 2/0): @_Matthew_Shaw @magelssen_chr I don't like about replication of that book, but @SolomonKurz has produced this https://t.co/BMnkN1w0ze  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/JamesSteeleII/status/1560520674938085376)

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> **Meghan Davenport, M.A.** (@IO_Meghan; 2/0): @wistrodriguez A few more that I have found helpful: data cleaning https://t.co/6KMsYNPTWK, general data science help https://t.co/YtjubKwLes, links to lots of cheatsheets https://t.co/HlzJB6C6A4, some good analysis walkthroughs https://t.co/TaN9Zb2Mnx, and just a plug for the apaTables package  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/IO_Meghan/status/1560278966791028736)

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> **Rami Krispin** (@Rami_Krispin; 1/0): @dantonnoriega In some point will move it to bookdown  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/Rami_Krispin/status/1561233687055929345)

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> **Péter Sólymos** (@psolymos; 1/0): @fionag111 Mermaid and Rmarkdown rendered to Word document: https://t.co/a01l9pFQ2r  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/psolymos/status/1560498484708622337)

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> **Bernard Surial** (@b_surial; 1/0): @Cortes_Penfield @JoshHerigon For meta analyis: https://t.co/4daQkcFkgK
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> For Bayesian: https://t.co/LYLiuuqIHj which is baysed (😀) on https://t.co/WMjc6dgLwT  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/b_surial/status/1560309112403070976)

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# knitr

> **Kelly Bodwin** (@KellyBodwin; 67/2): I'm pleased to announce that today I did the following things without Googling or looking at old notebooks:
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> + theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 45, hjust = 1)
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> and
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> knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = FALSE)
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> #rstats https://t.co/AGFwMUSkOo  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/KellyBodwin/status/1560743885826969600)

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> **Christophe Dervieux** (@chrisderv; 11/0): Really cool new usage of rmarkdown output format and knitr engine ! 😄
> Eager to look at the internal @MilesMcBain ! 👏 https://t.co/MLghwv4BY2  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/chrisderv/status/1561061950531969027)

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> **William B. Fuckley** (@opinonhaver; 9/1): fuck do files. have your code in a markdown document that you never knit because something in it breaks knitr and you don't know how to fix it, the way that god intended  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/opinonhaver/status/1561154082693206016)

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> **Jo Etzel** (@JosetAEtzel; 9/0): @debyee29 Still base R graphics for me! (And no, not sarcasm; check out https://t.co/21czwTGfun and https://t.co/gYgQeUMMMJ.)  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/JosetAEtzel/status/1560740006037266436)

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> **June Choe** (@yjunechoe; 7/0): @sharoz You can set that option in [knitr &gt; opts_chunk &gt; R.options &gt; width] !
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> 4 ways to do this:
> 1. Old-style chunk option
> 2. New-style chunk option
> 3. YAML global option
> 4. Evaluated code global option https://t.co/HyPM2OOhdv  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/yjunechoe/status/1560683885670699008)

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> **Nicola Romanò** (@_nicoromano_; 6/1): @tangming2005 You can create a hook to intercept long lines and split them. See https://t.co/0bp5zMO9Y8  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/_nicoromano_/status/1560200308399153152)

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> **Steve Haroz 📊👁️🧠** (@sharoz; 5/0): Does anyone know how to reduce the width of the content in the knitr html output? It's really wide, but my understanding of the readability literature suggests that under ~80 characters improves comprehension.  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/sharoz/status/1560672725084934144)

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> **Raniere Silva** (@rgaiacs; 2/2): @mxcatnap @quarto_pub Technical choices will depend of people working on the project and project's size. For a small project with only one person, I would use knitr to compile and reticulate to handle the data sharing between #python and #RStats in the same document.  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/rgaiacs/status/1560158896638988288)

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> **Lisa Levinson** (@lisalevinson; 1/3): Any #rstats folks know why I can't currently autocomplete past a $ when using inline R for Rmarkdown reporting in RStudio (2022.07.1)? Is it just me?  If I tab at `r mtcars$` I just get (No matches). Completes fine in an R chunk or console, and also with `r knitr::opts_chunk$`.  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/lisalevinson/status/1560313399904718848)

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> **helmingstay** (@prosopis; 1/1): I just published an expository #MWE template for reproducible production-quality figures with #R, #knitr, and #LaTeX. Comments welcome.
> #OpenScience #DataScience #ReproducibleReseach 
> @xieyihui @overleaf 
> https://t.co/cgSsdFe2kV  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/prosopis/status/1560730611471597570)

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> **Mickaël CANOUIL** (@MickaelCanouil; 1/1): @mxcatnap @sciencealice @quarto_pub #RStats / #Python is "easy" to achieve using {knitr} engine in #QuartoPub and {reticulate} package.  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/MickaelCanouil/status/1559997838708326400)

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> **Josh McNeill** (@joshisanonymous; 1/0): @shilaan01 This feels ripe for another "they design posters... in PowerPoint" uproar. I'm definitely for this for the reproducibility aspect. I do my posters in LaTeX with knitr.  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/joshisanonymous/status/1561181921442512903)

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> **Scott** (@scrottie; 1/0): @sunstarsys https://t.co/a6E7C0asz6  R. R has knitr and pandoc. Give it markdown, get a properly formatted pdf or docx in any of a hundred journal article styles/formats, including citation formation, with support for most MD extensions, inline figure generation, inline data analysis...  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/scrottie/status/1561169298588041216)

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> **tidyverse tweets** (@tidyversetweets; 0/1): In knitr HTML output, include line numbers of R Markdown source code? #tidyverse #rstats https://t.co/ggtxA2jH4A  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/tidyversetweets/status/1560033249769955329)

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# tinytex

> **Shah Nawaz** (@shah_f1; 1/0): "pandoc --to pdf --from ipynb -o file.pdf file.ipynb"
> >
> Requirement: Install latest version of pandoc on your pc and any latex distribution (miktex, texlive, tinytex). 
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> Run this command in terminal. Terminal should be open in same folder as file
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> https://t.co/aRaKSIHwz2  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/shah_f1/status/1561238633679622146)

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# xaringan

> **tidyverse tweets** (@tidyversetweets; 3/2): How to move the title to the right or centered on the title slide in xaringan? #tidyverse #rstats https://t.co/yYJqkLHIe6  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/tidyversetweets/status/1560697500272513024)

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> **tidyverse tweets** (@tidyversetweets; 2/1): xaringan: background image in the title page gone once I add titleSlideClass: [top, left] #tidyverse #rstats https://t.co/Ue9BrSLlRD  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/tidyversetweets/status/1560583517641117697)

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> **Michael Flynn** (@flynnpolsci; 2/0): @adamjnafa I mean, I don’t NEED to redo all of the CSS for my xaringan slides, buuut…  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/flynnpolsci/status/1560732510480257024)

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> **David Ubilava** (@DavidUbilava; 1/3): #RStats #RMarkdown 
> >
> My xaringan html slide fonts are fine on laptop/desktop, but they don't scale down (enough) on phone, so they end up getting out of the slide frame. Is there a solution to this? My quick google search didn't yield much.  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/DavidUbilava/status/1561121082572443648)

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> **ashok** (@NotDavidBrent; 1/2): hello R people, is there a way to convert rmd/html file developed in xaringan to pptx file?
> #rstats #xaringan #Rprogramming #tidyverse  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/NotDavidBrent/status/1560922658287411200)

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> **Michael Flynn** (@flynnpolsci; 1/0): @stephenjwild @adamjnafa I started playing with Quarto a few months ago, having finally converted all of my lecture slides to xaringan, and just thought "Dammit...I'm going to migrate again, aren't I?"
> >
> But yeah, I used beamer for a few years and definitely prefer the markdown based platform much more.  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/flynnpolsci/status/1560739757621391360)

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> **tidyverse tweets** (@tidyversetweets; 0/1): How to adjust title size or banner size of a single slide in xaringan #tidyverse #rstats https://t.co/1N1tGG3dA2  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/tidyversetweets/status/1560681949999636480)

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