{
  "title": "A population density map of long, slinky Chile. Took a bit of time to find an angle I like. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale https://t.co/ulU36V34tw",
  "date": "2021-10-24"
}

# #rstats

> **flotsam** (@researchremora; 1182/234): A population density map of long, slinky Chile. Took a bit of time to find an angle I like.
> >
> #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale https://t.co/ulU36V34tw  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/researchremora/status/1451918966864203782)

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> **R Function A Day** (@rfunctionaday; 244/37): If you are fluent in R and wish to learn SQL, it can be nifty to have a function that can provide a syntax translation between the two.
> >
> The {translate_sql} function from {dbplyr} 📦 provides such translations 🔀
> >
> https://t.co/cS6zPgdFNn
> >
> #rstats #DataScience https://t.co/Jafa31i673  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/rfunctionaday/status/1452127344093708295)

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> **R posts you might have missed!** (@icymi_r; 179/30): 📦📊 {ggstatsplot} • Enhancing {ggplot2} plots with statistical analysis 📊🎨📣
> >
> 👤 Indrajeet Patil @patilindrajeets
> >
> 👻 https://t.co/4muBWhCGVE
> #rstats #datascience https://t.co/cb7hsHeQpA  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/icymi_r/status/1451768899477942272)

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> **R posts you might have missed!** (@icymi_r; 178/40): 📚📊🗺✨ Geospatial Health Data: Modeling and Visualization with R-INLA and Shiny
> >
> 👤 Paula Moraga @paula_moraga_  
> >
> 💀 https://t.co/orfhpDkwyp
> #rstats #datascience https://t.co/RvEuXGW9Ms  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/icymi_r/status/1451862612992475136)

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> **Ed Kwedar** (@EdKwedar; 140/105): AI Best: Guide To #DataScientist Path - #DataScience Landscape | #BigData #Analytics #AI #MachineLearning #IoT #IIoT #Python #RStats #TensorFlow #JavaScript #ReactJS #CloudComputing #Serverless #Linux #Programming #Coding #100DaysofCode via @gp_pulipaka | https://t.co/mXzd6Kj9eN https://t.co/hqd2ov7scL  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/EdKwedar/status/1451548940483145741)

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> **Bader ALSalhan | بدر الصلحان** (@ALSALHAN; 118/103): #Infographic: Type of #DataScientists
> >
> #Cloud #AI #BigData #Analytics #DigitalTransformation #Great #DataScience #Python #RStats #Java #Javascript #ReactJS #CloudComputing #Serverless #DEVCommunity #DataScientist #Linux #Programming #Coding #100DaysofCode #DevOps #Data https://t.co/n3YmI9Aeae  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/ALSALHAN/status/1451743706042732544)

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> **Eva** (@EvaSmartAI; 117/119): Amazon robotic Air Hub sort center
> #Analytics #MachineLearning #AI #Python #Rstats #Reactjs #IoT #IIoT #Linux #Serverless #flutter #javascript #TensorFlow #BigData #CloudComputing  #Robotics #100DaysOfCode
> 🗒 Delivered via: #VegaLMS
> 📽 via davehclark https://t.co/goZk6UINzH  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/EvaSmartAI/status/1451600733598625792)

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> **Rubén Arce Santolaya** (@ruben_arce_s; 112/121): 10 Key Types #DataAnalytics Methods
> @ruben_arce_s
> #BigData #Analytics #frontend #MachineLearning #CyberSecurity #Python #RStats #TensorFlow #JavaScript #CloudComputing #Serverless #Linux #database #DataScience #100DaysofCode #ML #data #devops #php #java #AI #digital #opensource https://t.co/vVuTgKRCJT  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/ruben_arce_s/status/1451783895851143170)

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# blogdown

> **Kaija Gahm** (@kaija_bean; 144/32): Have you ever wanted to convert your slides to a scrollable #RMarkdown document, maybe to post on your #RStats #distill  or #blogdown site?
> >
> I wrote a tutorial here: https://t.co/0mSzS9NPmC
> >
> #scicomm #tidyverse #DataScience #reproducibility  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/kaija_bean/status/1451240256422875142)

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> **🎃 Spooky Kross 👻** (@seankross; 27/6): What are things you do all the time in #rstats that you would discourage a newcomer to R from doing? For me it would be using base graphics and using an R Markdown based blogging setup that is not blogdown.  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/seankross/status/1450507061356228613)

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> **Shannon Pileggi** (@PipingHotData; 11/0): @seankross 👋Hi! I use an R Markdown based blogging setup that is not blogdown, and I love it. {distill} has been much easier for me to get started &amp; maintain a blog than {blogdown} was.  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/PipingHotData/status/1450633087977656322)

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> **Michael** (@mikedecr; 5/0): blog overhaul insight: no need to manually set options(hugo.blogdown.version = ...) in your site .Rprofile when you can pass as.character(blogdown::hugo_version()) to it  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/mikedecr/status/1451030787353157633)

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> **Data Science Dojo** (@DataScienceDojo; 4/2): Have you ever wanted to convert your slides to a scrollable #RMarkdown document, maybe to post on your #RStats #distill  or #blogdown site?heres how to do:  https://t.co/19VziD1npW  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/DataScienceDojo/status/1451662140608327683)

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> **Elio Campitelli** (@d_olivaw; 4/2): Managing a blogdown website be like... 
> >
> #RStats https://t.co/XkhuCbZO1I  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/d_olivaw/status/1450894229929091072)

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> **Courtney Crosby** (@CourtneyLCrosby; 2/0): @matt_zefferman @babeheim I use blogdown in R, push the changes to Github, and host my domain name through Netlify. It's a bit tricky, but @dsquintana has excellent tutorials. Case in point: https://t.co/bOv9e81Kcz  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/CourtneyLCrosby/status/1450580785946320901)

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> **Rob Williams** (@jayrobw; 2/0): @matt_zefferman Jekyll or Hugo if you're willing to write in Markdown. Hugo integrates pretty cleanly with blogdown, too.  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/jayrobw/status/1450560834984361995)

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> **Marta Karas** (@martakarass; 2/0): @seankross "using an R Markdown based blogging setup that is not blogdown" +1 😒
> >
> From my recent email: "I set up hugo academics from scratch. And re-setup it 1y ago same painful way. Bless my heart. You please do use blogdown tutorial"  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/martakarass/status/1450510997765173250)

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> **tidyverse tweets** (@tidyversetweets; 1/2): Blogdown not displaying plots #tidyverse #rstats https://t.co/FHj94ZgXgy  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/tidyversetweets/status/1451787436388986880)

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> **Karina Bartolomé 💚** (@karbartolome; 1/0): @cristianvaldez5 yo uso distill en r, también tengo un blog en blogdown pero me pareció más complicado aunque permite personalizar bastante más que distill  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/karbartolome/status/1450934774244204548)

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> **Lluís Revilla Sancho** (@Lluis_Revilla; 0/2): Adding talks to my website with #blogdown. Anyone knows how to make the image of the talk appear on the website? 
> >
> Currently it is not shown on the list of talks nor the event or dates 😔 Also I desisted to make it appear on the home page (on the academic theme) #help #rStats  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/Lluis_Revilla/status/1450145891273281541)

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> **tidyverse tweets** (@tidyversetweets; 0/1): Build blogdown with github actions in subdir #tidyverse #rstats https://t.co/amDbJAGFC3  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/tidyversetweets/status/1451575996084367367)

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> **Jose Luis Cañadas** (@joscani; 0/1): Me está dando problemas hoy desplegar en Netlify. ¿Alguna alternativa que sea fácil con blogdown?  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/joscani/status/1451267529867935749)

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# bookdown

> **Dr Charles T. Gray ⚔️** (@cantabile; 36/0): Holy shite, @LisaDeBruine 
> >
> I just copy-pasted my slides into bookdown and 
> >
> It. Just. Worked. 
> >
> Everything knitted. All the plots, tables. https://t.co/LrPsu9ao6i  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/cantabile/status/1450817928471920649)

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> **Arthur Albuquerque** (@arthur_alb1; 14/3): @NCahill_Stat Looks nice! @SolomonKurz has also replicated it here https://t.co/zSg3iB7f1Y, first figure  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/arthur_alb1/status/1451236527682592768)

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> **Yihui Xie** (@xieyihui; 5/1): @Lluis_Revilla @MartinezLican @MeghanMHall And documentation is here (just for the record): https://t.co/esNVwu69xW  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/1450090151510781955)

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> **Mathias Harrer** (@MathiasHarrer; 5/1): @GuillChevance @crcgrubbsd @helenagmieres @pimcuijpers @Toshi_FRKW @DDEbert @CRC_MathStats Hi Guillaume, great resources indeed! We also made sure the entire book is available online for free here:  https://t.co/IgzGLKAKYS  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/MathiasHarrer/status/1450004324785037313)

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> **Eric Green** (@ericpgreen; 3/4): Anyone want to talk me out of QR codes in a print book (tufte margin notes)? Leaning toward also printing the short URL.
> >
> (Online version omits QR code and simply hyperlinks. Thank goodness for eval=knitr::is_latex_output() in #rstats #bookdown.) https://t.co/ijtdGwe9Q6  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/ericpgreen/status/1450192523754934272)

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> **Espacio Muestral** (@espaciomuestral; 3/2): Te recomendamos: Data Science for Psychologists 📕
> >
> Un libro dirigido a personas del área de #Psicología que quieren comenzar en la #CienciadeDatos desde #R 💻
> >
> 👇👇
> https://t.co/7LJPAVCp1L  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/espaciomuestral/status/1450635378118078465)

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> **tidyverse tweets** (@tidyversetweets; 2/3): Cross-reference code chunks in `bookdown` similar to figures, tables, and equations #tidyverse #rstats https://t.co/f29psMsDOZ  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/tidyversetweets/status/1450578035850219520)

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> **Fabio** (@change_states; 2/0): @ChrisMasterjohn I don't know if it's the best, but it's a good resource if you plan on using R:
> >
> https://t.co/BJy4q2rS9Y  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/change_states/status/1451881411577794569)

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> **memovocab** (@memovocab; 1/1): [Book] Very interesting book (available on line) on how to conduct a meta-analysis with R https://t.co/11h42wvh6t  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/memovocab/status/1452235394196639747)

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> **Colin Madland, PhD(c)** (@colinmadland; 1/1): @_valeriei @roycekimmons found this course yesterday ... https://t.co/h11Qbvgkpa  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/colinmadland/status/1451991018648203266)

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> **Bill Gardner** (@Bill_Gardner; 1/1): I'm getting distracted by bookdown (https://t.co/goIULDHvjl).
> >
> I have to produce a massive data report. bookdown is immensely powerful, and therefore great fun. 
> >
> The temptation is spend my time hacking, i.e., playing, Instead of writing, i.e., working.  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/Bill_Gardner/status/1451942937198268423)

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> **Colin Madland, PhD(c)** (@colinmadland; 1/0): @ClaytonBurnsPhD @_valeriei @roycekimmons Agreed, WordPress is challenging for long docs, for sure. I've been working in Bookdown recently and really like it for long form publishing. https://t.co/ejIZGBP3uC. Curating? @zotero &amp; @NotionHQ for me.  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/colinmadland/status/1452126351427727363)

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> **Jisca Huisman** (@HuismanJisca; 1/0): @Lluis_Revilla @DrMowinckels @djnavarro This may or may not be true for markdown::render, but is not true for knitr::knit
> >
> When trying to find back the stackoverflow thread about this, I came across the below, which may be exactly what I need. So, thanks!
> >
> https://t.co/aCtkUPP1NB  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/HuismanJisca/status/1451831553525436418)

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> **KOSgitTI v1.45.2（鎖骨さん）** (@kosugitti; 1/0): TeXをpandocでmdにしてあとでRmdで修正してからbookdownでepubが一番いいような気がしてきたぞ。  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/kosugitti/status/1451397392499036161)

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> **Douglas Lawton, PhD** (@DouglasLawton; 1/0): @millerdl I also noticed there's a Rmarkdown template already constructed for the journal in rticles which seems very handy. https://t.co/iJimr57XfF
> >
> But yeah manuscript central is a paiiin.  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/DouglasLawton/status/1451208259428356106)

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> **Knut Jägersberg** (@JagersbergKnut; 1/0): @Rami_Krispin I have not tried but it seems possible to register custom language engines. https://t.co/wSmCsODiq4  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/JagersbergKnut/status/1451029198928326657)

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> **Flavio Azevedo** (@Flavio_Azevedo_; 1/0): @ntdPhD For best practices, you probably are looking for Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA). There's little you cannot find here: https://t.co/5QVyRFyXLa
> >
> In practice, this online book is absolute 🔥
> https://t.co/KWD5SpaKnQ  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/Flavio_Azevedo_/status/1450560524081631250)

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> **Paquito Bernard** (@PaquitoBernard; 1/0): @erinomarakunz Best resource for beginners 
> https://t.co/fYOnwhjUWn  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/PaquitoBernard/status/1450521676106682369)

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> **Jordi Rosell** (@jrosell; 1/0): @ozeo_ https://t.co/H584MWdBGX  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/jrosell/status/1450188641205170177)

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> **tidyverse tweets** (@tidyversetweets; 0/1): Trouble with the Word Themes in Bookdown knit #tidyverse #rstats https://t.co/CRNDr22vfG  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/tidyversetweets/status/1451556328980324360)

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> **tidyverse tweets** (@tidyversetweets; 0/1): Access parameters in bookdown chapters #tidyverse #rstats https://t.co/cWbY64GPF6  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/tidyversetweets/status/1450011364576141314)

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# knitr

> **tj mahr, friendly ghost 👻** (@tjmahr; 7/0): @ed_hagen @LisaDeBruine yup. i also use split() and my own super_split() for making the lists. janitor::make_clean_names() can help avoid the need for backticks in the list accessing  https://t.co/pgYfATpjQ6  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/tjmahr/status/1450818904540991489)

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> **Ingo Rohlfing** (@ingorohlfing; 6/2): There is always one more useful {knitr} function I didn't know:
> Put knit_exit() in your file and the knitting process stops after this point. You get a report for everything before knit_exit. Everything that follows is just skipped from report
> #rstats  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/ingorohlfing/status/1451546632370196486)

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> **John Paul Helveston** (@JohnHelveston; 4/0): @ijeamaka_a This in combination with setting the default figure path so you get a nicely named folder is super nice 🙂
> >
> knitr::opts_chunk$set(fig.path = "figs")  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/JohnHelveston/status/1450782733077204998)

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> **R Weekly Live** (@rweekly_live; 3/5): An Upcoming Breaking Change in knitr on Unbalanced Chunk Delimiters @xieyihui #rstats #datascience https://t.co/ESqnOInBLa  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/rweekly_live/status/1450581820697948163)

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> **Stas Kolenikov** (@StatStas; 2/0): @ivelasq3 kableExtra to build upon knitr:: kable()  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/StatStas/status/1450114905047240716)

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> **Joshua Rosenberg** (@jrosenberg6432; 1/3): Weird #rstats question - is it possible to automatically style all of the tables in an R Markdown document with something like what knitr::kable() does?  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/jrosenberg6432/status/1451200013292298261)

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> **Andrew Rohne 💻** (@AndrewTheTM; 1/1): @msimas R does visualization and dashboards better, and there are some things easier in R. If someone ported ggplot, knitr, and kable to Python, it would take a chunk out of R's user base.
> >
> (and I still hate Python, I want brackets and no forced indents!)  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/AndrewTheTM/status/1451244097537200137)

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> **Frank Gootjes** (@GootjesFrank; 1/0): @jrosenberg6432 Have a look at the example from the help page of knitr::knit_print: https://t.co/cq2P1wXB6L
> >
> When knitting, the code from the example will allow to call a custom print method (kable?) instead of the default knit_print method for a certain object class, in your case "data.frame".  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/GootjesFrank/status/1451211664729284608)

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> **Ollin D. Langle-Chimal** (@Nietzchrodinger; 1/0): @TrishaShrum Rmarkdown is great for this. You can easily generate tables from any data frame using knitr::kable
> You can also check some online tools like https://t.co/w2tUy89ipl  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/Nietzchrodinger/status/1450897870371033096)

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> **tj mahr, friendly ghost 👻** (@tjmahr; 1/0): @JesseCambon wooo fighting the good fight for jekyll and knitr 👏 https://t.co/EVs0RUpSm7  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/tjmahr/status/1450463705167273988)

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> **Ed Hagen** (@ed_hagen; 1/0): @wgervais knitr::spin is another option:
> >
> https://t.co/rDeXaAnZWP  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/ed_hagen/status/1450814449023995909)

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> **Benjamin Gowan** (@Benjaming_G; 1/0): @technocrat @ivelasq3 I blew someone's mind the other day with a quick df %&gt;% knitr::kable("latex") for them ha.  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/Benjaming_G/status/1450251093078732800)

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> **MaleM- #343🇵🇪🇨🇦** (@malena_maguina; 1/0): data.table &gt;&gt;&gt; pandas
> knitr &amp; latex &gt;&gt;&gt; jupyter
> ggplot2 &gt;&gt;&gt;maplolib 
> After using python I love R better https://t.co/doZUKST9Gh  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/malena_maguina/status/1450067184848416773)

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> **amandaj3038** (@amandaj3038; 1/0): @anwar_siraji @rstats4ds Maybe the tidy text package combined with Kable from Knitr, or ggtable can help.  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/amandaj3038/status/1450006526270197766)

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# tinytex

> **ΚΛМRΛΝ КНΛΝ. 🙇‍♂️ ♓️** (@CamCaan; 1/0): @stayribangsoo @rstats4ds Probably you need to install tinytex  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/CamCaan/status/1450825415795388416)

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> **tonho** (@tonhocampos_; 1/0): @thiagodasal se precisar instalar tenta o TinyTex, mais leve  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/tonhocampos_/status/1449734739452063746)

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# xaringan

> **mestre dos magos** (@terrivelment; 11/0): manguekio xaringan 😡 https://t.co/RNIOuyuUYa  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/terrivelment/status/1451719389993111553)

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> **Fêshow** (@fernandakellyrs; 8/0): Aprendendo a tirar pontos positivos da filha da putagem de gente alheia:
> >
> - Aprendi xaringan
> - Estudei o básico novamente
> - Futriquei mais ainda o R Markdown
> - Conheci mais sobre as funcionalidades do R
> >
> Foi bom, mas o papel de palhaça sei fazer muito bem 🤡  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/fernandakellyrs/status/1450291532976828422)

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> **Eric Leung** (@erictleung; 3/0): pretty cool that firefox has a color blindness simulator in its accessibility pane
> >
> it'll make checking xaringan presentations and anything else that runs on the browser to see if it is color-blind friendly https://t.co/rykVsQwzUU  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/erictleung/status/1451576638907432963)

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> **Garrick Aden-Buie** (@grrrck; 2/0): @courtneybhilton @ceptional @LisaDeBruine Maybe @minebocek's example using @Slidoapp in xaringan slides? https://t.co/IGdxfLzgPH  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/grrrck/status/1450554389190619139)

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> **Brock Tibert** (@BrockTibert; 1/3): It's been a minute since I have looked for new RMarkdown themes.  Interested in standalone HTML files and #xaringan slide decks.
> >
> What is everyone using these days? 
> >
> #rstats #rmarkdown  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/BrockTibert/status/1450239484969226242)

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> **Ariel Mundo** (@amundortiz; 1/2): The amount of resources that the #rstats community provides never ceases to amaze me. 
> The  XaringanBuilder package from @grrrck and @JohnHelveston allows you to render PDFs from #xaringan keeping panel interactions! 💯
> https://t.co/WzF1duVXal  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/amundortiz/status/1451643706956664836)

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> **Tiago Ventura** (@_Tiagoventura; 1/0): @AIinclusive @BeaMilz Xaringan brabão da @BeaMilz!  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/_Tiagoventura/status/1452012935253987333)

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> **Nick Seewald** (@nickseewald; 1/0): @grecostatistics I'm actually becoming more of a xaringan guy these days!  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/nickseewald/status/1451250995963498501)

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> **Brian Greco** (@grecostatistics; 1/0): @nickseewald I just learned about xaringan the other day. I love that he named the package that to prevent people from discovering it so he could be one of the only people with nice slides. 😂  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/grecostatistics/status/1451251851979108357)

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> **Roxana Noelia** (@data_datum; 1/0): ¿Por qué cuando intento imprimir diapos de xaringan solo me imprime la 1era pagina una vez esta en html? Alguien sabe como solucionar eso? Instale varios add-ons de mozilla pero no hay caso. #R_tips #R  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/data_datum/status/1449892760979480580)

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> **tidyverse tweets** (@tidyversetweets; 0/1): RMarkdown HTML xaringan - R code chunck titles #tidyverse #rstats https://t.co/FrJt31847M  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/tidyversetweets/status/1451418460437639173)

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> **nissinbo** (@nissinbo_; 0/1): xaringanのcssがいっぱい載ってるサイトないかなあ  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/nissinbo_/status/1451337409115820039)

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