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Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.

Wondering if it’s time to switch from #RStudio to the shiny new @posit.co Positron? ✨🪩

These two blogs may help:

www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/why-mov...

blog.stephenturner.us/p/r-package-...

#rstats

Reshape in Stata without looking at the help file

Every time you write "there is no effect/difference (p>0.05)", when you mean "we found no evidence for an effect/difference (p>0.05)" a baby kitten dies

Here is a cool little function for R that lets you check if all of the loaded packages are actually necessary for the code that follows, letting you cut down on unneeded packages. Really helpful for grading student code too, since this is a common error!

funchir::stale_package_check('mycode.R')