Original link: https://yihui.org/en/2023/09/snap-slides/ I do not remember when or how I first encountered the CSS Scroll Snap technique, but when I saw it, one thing came to my mind immediately: can we use this technique to make slides? (Spoiler: the answer later was YES ) If you have not heard of it before, here is …
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Original link: https://yihui.org/en/2023/09/fuse-search/ Normally web searching is performed on the server side. That is, when you send a query with some keywords, the server will search its database that contains all data of a website. Searching can also be performed on the client side, ie, in your web browser via JavaScript. Several JS libraries can …
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Original link: https://yihui.org/en/2023/09/merge-blockquotes/ Older versions of Hugo use a library named Blackfriday to convert Markdown to HTML, which is not compliant with CommonMark (unlike Goldmark in newer versions of Hugo). One problem with Blackfriday is that blank lines inside blockquotes are treated as part of the blockquotes. For example, > One > Two will be …
Original link: https://yihui.org/en/2023/09/auto-fullwidth/ I mentioned a simple CSS trick to generate full-width figures in 2021. I was thinking the other day if I could make certainly automatic elements, so I do not need to manually specify them to be full-width. Finally, I wrote some JS code to deal with three types of elements automatically: Code …
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Original link: https://yihui.org/en/2023/09/knitr-1-44/ After coming back from vacation , I mainly spent my time on the knitr package maintenance. I will make a new release soon, and want to quickly highlight a few things in this post. For the full list of changes, please read the NEWS.md in the Github repo. Working better with Quarto …
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Original link: https://yihui.org/en/2023/08/output-format-dependency/ Traditionally there are two main ways to customize R Markdown output formats: One is to use the options of an existing output format, eg, set toc: true for html_document ; the other is to define a new output format function based on rmarkdown::output_format() , which usually requires you to develop an R …
Original link: https://yihui.org/en/2023/05/hugo-112/ To new blogdown users: the current latest Hugo version 0.112.x series have some serious bugs and I’d Strongly recommend against using these versions of Hugo. For now, the highest The version of Hugo that you can use is 0.111.3, which you can install with: blogdown::install_hugo(‘0.111.3’) # if you have installed higher versions, …
Original link: https://yihui.org/en/2023/05/fold-messages/ Most R Markdown users may know that code blocks can be folded in HTML output. Then @rkb965 asked a good question on how to fold messages and warnings. The answer was not clear to me in the beginning, but later I recalled a contribution by @atusy and came up with this solution: …
Original link: https://yihui.org/en/2023/05/philly-markdown/ Tomorrow I’ll give a webinar at 10am (US Central Time) at the ASA Philadelphia Chapter on R Markdown v1. If anyone is interested, you may register for the webinar here . I have done a similar webinar in January, but this time I will explain more on why the almost deprecated R …
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Original link: https://yihui.org/en/2023/05/dt-status/ My first job at RStudio (now rebranded to Posit) was to integrate the JS library DataTables into Shiny . That was in 2013, almost ten years ago. To be honest, I have never been highly interested in tables, and working on tables was just a random start of my professional career. Since …
Original link: https://yihui.org/en/2023/04/share-your-goodwill/ Recently I often hear my son sing a song at home that sounds touching to me. The incomplete lyrics from his mouth included sentences like “remember there are people not as fortunate as you”. That’s exactly what I have been telling him since he was four years old when he complained about …
Original link: https://yihui.org/en/2023/04/get-objects/ Last month I saw an interesting question on Stack Overflow, in which the OP wanted to print a series of data frames as tables, and tried double loops, which did not work: for (i in c(“CP”, “BK”, “IT”, “WP”)) { for (j in c(“DD”, “SI”)) { data <- get(paste0(i, “_”, j, “_comb1”)) …
Original link: https://yihui.org/cn/2022/07/river-god/ Granny Tang waved the flag and shouted The whole staff of Xiaoqianhe soup house Drag and drag together Pulled out the thorn of the rotten god Unplugged bicycles, rags, refrigerators, fishing lines Pulled out large swathes of rubbish and sludge Rush through the medicinal bath Just discovered God of Decay doesn’t really …