{
  "title": "2019 #rstats goals: 1. Create more packages about time series tools 2. Explore more about #ts #forecast hybrid and forecast combinations 3. Create my own #ggplot theme 4. Refine my presentation using #xaringan 5. Create my blog and book using #blogdown and #bookdown",
  "date": "2019-01-02"
}

# blogdown

> **Dan Carpenter** (@drdcarpenter; 20/4): My 2019 #rstats goals are:
> #1 get my website set up with blogdown
> #2 finish up my demo shiny app
> #3 set up shiny server to host said app  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/1080089906658062336)

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> **Alison Hill** (@apreshill; 20/1): I 🕵️‍♀️ 🔎 lots of #rstats #blogdown goals! 🎉 nice analysis of New Years learning resolutions by @jsonbaik https://t.co/7YSHLJ7362  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/1080156116313460737)

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> **Denise Colombano** (@starryflo; 17/2): Upcoming #rstats goals of 2019:
> >
> GAMs
> - Learn mgcv
> - Apply it to brms
> >
> Git
> - Use it for everything
> >
> Bookdown
> - Write my dissertation in it
> - Use @riverpeek thesis template ‘Aggiedown’
> >
> Blogdown
> - Create a personal website
> >
> 🥳🥳🥳  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/1080143123836108801)

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> **Lance Harris** (@lancer_harris; 11/2): I've started one of my #RStats 2019 goals today: build a website with #blogdown. The site is https://t.co/J0DeTsFvPK and is nearly empty. I hope to fill it with @DataCamp course reflections and #RStats posts.  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/1080256430052204544)

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> **José Pereira** (@jafcpereira; 10/2): My #rstats goals for 2019:
> -Finally creating my blog with blogdown on medicine and statistics
> -Finishing up Advanced R by HW
> -Reading Stat Rethinking 2nd ed by @rlmcelreath 
> -Deepen my knowledge in Shiny
> -Reading @kjhealy Data Visualization and @winston_chang 2nd Graphic cookbook  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/1080180354307293185)

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> **Mareviv** (@maureviv; 5/1): what #rstats meant for me these years
> 2012 was the year I discovered #ggplot2 &amp; #knitr!
> 2013, the year of #shiny!
> 2014, fiddling with R's innards..
> 2015, writing PhD/#ioslides with R
> 2016, the #tidyverse!
> 2017, year of #blogdown and #sparklyr!
> 2018 has been the year of #purrr! 🏁  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/1080139734133940225)

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> **Maëlle Salmon 🐟** (@ma_salmon; 5/0): @marcbeldata I'd really recommend #blogdown instead of WordPress for R-related stuff. Happy New Year!  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/1080101345754009600)

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> **David Pich** (@davidpich; 4/1): Create Blogs and Websites with R Markdown: An #opensource (GPL-3) R package to generate static websites based on R #Markdown and #Hugo. #blogdown https://t.co/dxDxKisJp2  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/1080101684439859200)

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> **Ming Tang** (@tangming2005; 3/1): Just finished a lesson on purrr on datacamp. Rethinking is on my to read for a long time. I will try to blog monthly using Blogdown. https://t.co/D5psXk1ZAn  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/1080167572740493313)

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> **Patrick Durkee** (@durkeepk; 2/0): Starting off the new year by making a twitter and a new website/blog because I want 2019 to be filled with more self-inflicted stress and less free time. #blogdown #academic #NewYearNewMe  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/1080235870198718464)

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> **Michael Johnson** (@data_mike_j; 1/0): @malco_barrett @drob @juliasilge I've found blogdown + netlify works really nicely for blogging. Just started mine: https://t.co/uKckafzhDw 
> Got a couple of posts on NLP coming soon!  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/1080302005862653952)

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> **Jason Baik** (@jsonbaik; 1/0): @marcbeldata Yep #blogdown 👍  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/1080136065497907200)

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> **Jonathan Kitt** (@bidulomique; 1/0): @committedtotape Great work ! I'm also working on a blog (in french for a start), using blogdown, github and creative portfolio ! Hope to upload it on Monday. Will be following your blog for sure !  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/1080161438730194947)

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> **Michael Johnson** (@data_mike_j; 0/0): 2019 #rstats and #DeepLearning goals:
> 1. Implement nlp transfer learning models in production.
> 2. Do lstm based Time series anomaly detection.
> 3. Contribute to an open source package (maybe blogdown).
> 4. Show 3 people the magic of #rstats.  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/1080300888256798721)

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> **Michael Johnson** (@data_mike_j; 0/0): @drdcarpenter Love blogdown. Got my blog started. A few things to figure out but the documentation is great.  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/1080295062267817984)

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> **Jason Baik** (@jsonbaik; 0/0): Hey #rstats community! I'm working on my first goal. What's a good resource that you used to help you change your existing #blogdown theme? https://t.co/7DTz3t9H1U  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/1080184915155734528)

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> **Marc Belzunces** (@marcbeldata; 0/0): @ma_salmon Thanks, Maëlle! Yes, in the following days I'll give a try to both blogdown and WordPress. My concern with blogdown is that I want to use also Python, and show some GIS work (with QGIS). But any idea/comment will be welcome. Happy New (#rstasts) Year!  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/1080180899591917568)

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> **The Part Time Analyst** (@parttimeanalyst; 0/0): @committedtotape wow thats really good - does blogdown mean you have full control over customisation?  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/1080083370007293952)

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# bookdown

> **Juvenal** (@JuvenalCamposF; 14/2): My #rstats goals for 2019:
> 1. Learn how to use Sentiment Analysis 
> 2. Learn how to deal with Twitter Data
> 3. Improve my #RMarkdown skills and learn how to use #Blogdown &amp; #Bookdown
> 4. Find mates to work in new exciting projects!  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/1079935375794028546)

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> **Derek Sollberger** (@DerekSollberger; 9/1): 2019 #rstats goals:
> ---Participate in a #Kaggle competition each month
> ---Write a blog post each month
> ---Compose a tweet each week
> ---Get my code package to "version 1.0"
> ---Give a talk/workshop outside of my university
> ---Assemble a course's notes in #Bookdown  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/1080142990352338945)

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> **飲茶Wiz🍵** (@yumcyawiz; 3/1): #R #Bookdown
> Photorealismの執筆でBookdownというRの組版パッケージを利用して便利だったので、具体的な執筆方法について紹介する記事を書きました。
> >
> teastat: Bookdownによる技術系同人誌執筆 https://t.co/mekgm1QfOv  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/1080070930687188992)

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> **James Pitt 🌹** (@Sahelanth; 1/0): 2019 #rstats goals:
> 1. Make a personal site with Bookdown.
> 2. Deploy interactives to that site. https://t.co/VijcmDu52Z
> 3. Post my neural net projects for critique and stop beating myself up about not being SOTA.  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/1080273063772676096)

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# knitr

> **STUART L BEATTIE** (@SPGPoetry; 0/0): Why the positive contributions to reproducible research are the iPython Notebook, knitr, and Galaxy    
>    https://t.co/9vVOG0Sxm0  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/1080184399247872006)

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# tinytex

> **Mitchell O'Hara-Wild** (@mitchoharawild; 0/0): @ClaytonTLamb My best guess is that you need to install LaTeX.
> https://t.co/kBwZ4suaOV
> @xieyihui's tinytex package makes setting this up easy (https://t.co/q8Q2bWwM7z)  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/1080230465724792832)

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# xaringan

> **Chen Xing** (@chenxingus; 36/3): 2019 #rstats goals:
> 1. Create more packages about time series tools
> 2. Explore more about #ts #forecast hybrid and forecast combinations
> 3. Create my own #ggplot theme
> 4. Refine my presentation using #xaringan
> 5. Create my blog and book using #blogdown and #bookdown  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/1079890261021417474)

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