Scientific blogging with R Markdown
👋 Welcome!
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Notes for future you
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Passion for sharing?
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Opportunities
Teaching this course is an opportunity I got from blogging but blogging is not a pyramid scheme 😉
Why create blog?
What if I don’t really want to blog regularly?
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Have a platform to share stuff when you need to.
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Portfolio. In particular, imagine someone recommending you for a thing.
What is a website?
Online server somewhere.
Why Rmd for blogging?
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Data analysis with R
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Blogging about R
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R as an utility tool e.g. to generate text from structured data
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knitr supports other languages…
WHAT is a scientific Rmd blog?
IMHO 😸
I’ll list criteria so we have something to compare our adventures to.
Tech part
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Easy way to update from Rmd without too much copy-pasting
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Fits into your existing workflow or uses things you want to learn and invest time in
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Code, syntax highlighting
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Modern tooling (html5? mobile friendly?)
Science part
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References from a .bib file
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Easy way to cite posts?
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Equations
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Content. Blog about science, or stuff relevant to science&co (e.g. comparisons of way to fit and present linear models in R).
Human part
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Accessible. Alt text, contrast. Don’t add gate-keeping to science.
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You OWN it. Content, URL (no commercial service, no employer).
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Allows for interactions (social media? commenting?)
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Costs a few dollars a month at most.
Let’s go
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distill
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Hugo&hugodown
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WordPress
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Reproducibility
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Promotion
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Debrief