irena papst, phd 👩‍💻📉🦠
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irena papst, phd 👩‍💻📉🦠
@papsti.bsky.social
scientist modelling infectious disease spread at the Public Health Agency of Canada 🇨🇦 views entirely my own. en/fr/hr.

papsti.github.io
i can hack things with calls to system() to move files after they’re generated but having the source live in a subdirectory too seems to be painful if i’m trying to adhere to the best practice of having all paths start at the project root (e.g., using {here})
June 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
very nice! how did you decide on making the y-coordinates follow a sigmoid? did you consider/try any alternatives?
June 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
thanks for the rec! the features look great and i was able to painlessly migrate my pocket data 🎉
May 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
oh! i misread your example. i thought left was step 1 and right was step 2. i agree—it’s convenient to have it all rolled up in one function 🎉
May 8, 2025 at 9:13 PM
interesting! is there a benefit to using reader::parse_number() over as.numeric()?
May 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
super interesting data exploration. thanks for sharing!
May 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
there are a few ways to save content. i use a web browser extension on my laptop. on my phone, i have the iOS Pocket app, which comes with share menu integration: when you go to share a site in your web browser, you can tap the Pocket icon to add it to your saves
Add-ons, extensions, and themes | Pocket Help
support.mozilla.org
April 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
yes, it basically saves links and then gives you an interface (mobile app or website) to read the content you've saved

i like to tag my saves to help remind myself of why i saved them, and you could use that to organize into topics

when i've read something, i archive it for safe keeping 💾
April 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
i don’t know! i had the same thought during your curation week. agreed, would be great to connect 😊
April 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
also using GitHub Desktop as a starter interface since it’s point and click and has built in diffs, but then peeling back the layers with command line git.
February 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
have new users try to draw diagrams of what’s happening (staging vs committing, pushing up to a cloud server). the mental model is the biggest hurdle in my experience teaching git to others. once they understand what’s happening, the commands aren’t too hard to remember.
February 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
my talk gives an overview of targets and some opinionated advice. if you want a more hands-on experience with the package, check out the tutorials i point to here:

papsti.github.io/talks/2025-0...
Manage your analyses with ease using {targets}
papsti.github.io
February 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
“what the hell was i doing here…?”

“my best 🥲”
February 3, 2025 at 8:41 PM