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My name is Yihui Xie. You can know more about me on the homepage and my vitae. This blog is about statistics, R, graphics, life, and fun, with a special focus on R.
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The lt Package: Lightweight HTML Tables for R (and Beyond)
Recently I have released a new package on CRAN: lt, short for lightweight tables (or less than). Its origin story is a small moment of shock. About two years ago a project required gt, so I ran install.packages('gt') in a fresh R session on Linux - and th
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blogdown: Creating Websites with R Markdown
A guide to creating websites with R Markdown and the R package blogdown.
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Bye, Stack Overflow
After being a member of Stack Overflow for more than 15 years, I have finally decided to leave it behind. I've complained about it in once in 2017 and again in 2018. The similar frustration still occurred earlier this month, which became the last straw to
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Converting testthat Tests to testit
Back in 2013, I wrote about testing R packages when I first released testit. Thirteen years later, I still believe that unit testing should be nothing more than "tell me if something unexpected happened." Recently I converted a large testthat test suite t
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Reflections on AI-assisted Programming
My former colleague Nan kept telling me early last year that I should try Cursor, but I felt I didn't need AI assistance at that time, since I knew pretty well what I wanted to do and how. Plus, I'm generally frugal and would hesitate to purchase anything
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