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Do yourself a favor: learn Markdown – Episode 7: BibTeX for online articles

Summary A tool to create a BibTeX entry for online articles or blogs. Generate BibTeX from URL This is a follow-up on 6 “Episode”” in previous posts titled “Do yourself a favor: learn Markdown…” In a previous article (Sgro (2022)) I presented how to add bibliographical information within an Rmarkdown document (Allaire et al. (2023)) …

Learn Markdown – Episode 6. Convert Word to Markdown with pandoc

Summary Pandoc is a document converter for multiple type of files. Converting example Format conversion is a chore that often takes a lot of time. I recently wanted to convert a long MSWord document into a version of Markdown that I could use to update a software documentation. Pandoc can convert many documents types into …

Do yourself a favor: learn Markdown – Episode 5. BibTeX interface for PubMed

Summary A web site to create BibTex entries for bibliography in R Markdown. R and Markdown This is a follow-up on 4 “Episodes” in previous posts titled “Do yourself a favor: learn Markdown…” To add bibliographical information it is necessary to write the information of a paper in the BibTex format. BibTeX-files may contain four …

Do yourself a favor: learn Markdown – Episode 4. Reproducible reports

The message The essential message is this: stop using Copy/Paste from one program to another (e.g. a chart from Excel to Word) as this is a manual process that is not reproducible and can easily get out of sync if new data need to be incorporated and the report reconstructed anew. The solution is to …

Do yourself a favor: learn Markdown – Episode 3, Academic writing

Academic writing with Markdown The origin of Markdown was a simple editing process to export web pages in HTML. In Episode 1 we learned that (original) Markdown has a simple syntax for enhancing text with rich elements while retaining the readability of a plain text format. Episode 2 explored Markdown variants and Markdown (free) software. In …

Do yourself a favor: learn Markdown – Episode 2

In Episode 1: Markdown is easy we saw how Markdown can simplify and streamline the creation of documents while working in easily readable plain text. In this episode we’ll explore: Markdown variations Since its original inception in 2004 by John Gruber, famous Apple commentator and online blogger as a plain text-to-HTML conversion tool, there has …

Do yourself a favor: learn Markdown – Master it in 10 minutes!

Episode 1: Markdown is easy, keeps things simple Markdown is… Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax that incorporates rich text elements while retaining the ease and readability of plain text. Why learn Markdown? Markdown greatly simplifies writing in the digital age and is a standard used on many web sites such as github. Markdown …

Tutorial Materials – R/RStudio

TUTORIALS ARE ORGANIZED BY SOFTWARE. Access these pages either with the menu at right, or by browsing below. Each page will provide tutorial materials in various formats.

UW Free Computing Badger Compute and CHTC

Summary Two resources for free computing at UW-Madison offered by the Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC): – BadgerCompute: badgercompute.wisc.edu/ for Jupyter-based interactive notebooks in R, Python, or Julia computer programming languages. – High Throughput Computing for large compute projects. Free account by filling-in a request account form. Free computing @ UW There was a …

Environmental Health Tabular data analysis with R and Tidyverse

R and Tidyverse Tabular Data Analysis I have updated the Tabular data analysis with R and Tidyverse course that analyze environmental health data from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) a survey research program conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) to assess the health and nutritional status of adults and children …