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Make an Easy-to-Maintain CV or Resume using R

The vitae package makes it easy to create a reproducible and dare I say quite sexy looking CV or résumé using R Markdown. Essentially, …

Creating a New R Project from the Windows Context Menu

Here is something I have wanted to do for a while: create a new folder and then simply be able to right-click and create a new R …

A Zotero Workflow for R

In terms of citation management systems, there are not many options: EndNote, Excel, Mendeley, and Zotero. I was a big fan of Mendeley, …

How do you pronounce that? Twitter Polls, Academic Language, and Data Science

Over the years, I have asked a fair amount of questions on Twitter in the form of polls. Many of these have to do with pronunciation, …

Making a Correlation Table with Highlighted Values

This blog post is inspired by a structural equation modeling class I am currently taking. Part of assessing model fit is examining …

Exploratory Factor Analysis Tables in R

I am currently taking a psychometrics courses, and in this psychometrics course we have just finished reviewing exploratory factor …

What do institutional policies have to say about #flyingless?

This summer, I undertook a small research project that examined institutional policies related to climate change. These mostly included …

R/R Markdown Table Options for Multilevel Models

I am currently taking a multilevel modeling class in my PhD program. It is week 3-ish and I am learning a lot. The course is …

Making APA Tables with the gt Package

R has always been a very powerful statistical analysis tool. With the development of ggplot, it has also become an extremely powerful …

Air Travel Emissions Calculator in R

Note: this is now a package! I am hoping to soon be working with a data set of travel data for which I will need to calculate carbon …