I think dplyr may be a better proxy for R usage than ggplot2. WRT ggplot2 decline, I think more accessible interactive tools have become available. For example, I use ggplot2 less because my daily work requires interactive tools like Observable Plot.

Was taught w/ ISLR but had very little instruction on how to use RStudio. Even though RMD files existed, most people didn’t know what that was so everyone was copy/pasting code into Google Docs or Word. A woman in my class saw some of us doing that + gently suggested RMD. That was my starting gun!

I think about this, too. The narrative was, “more accessible/available info will make society better.”

As it’s played out, it appears to have made us (collectively) more narcissistic, less compassionate, and oriented around whatever confirms my own biases. Doesn’t seem like anyone saw that coming.

Funny enough, just used cmarker yesterday with a parameterized report. Had no idea the package was new, but it worked seamlessly. Workflow here is one parameterized quarto doc that builds all of the individual markdown files and another doc (this one) that reads them into a user-facing PDF.

Thanks

Thanks, Bob.

Thanks! I used the typst template + show file structure that Quarto’s adopted in their docs

That’s the one!

I think so, but it depends on your work + personal interest. @nrennie.bsky.social has good a great talk that helps people decide whether it’s worth the time. That said, I just started learning how to make templates today + was doing stuff by EOD in Typst that took me months to learn in Latex.

Thank you, Garrick! I’m gonna give this a whirl.

Thanks, Simon! I figured that’s where we ended up. I just didn’t know if Posit had cooked up a nice helper function for Python users. That R helper function really takes the sting out of working locally with legacy databricks environments.

Thanks. I use GPT for lots of things. Still interested in learning to translate my knowledge from one language to another.

Resources like this from @allisonhorst.bsky.social are particularly helpful for bridging that knowledge. Looking for something like this.

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