Catalog of This Blog and Link to My New Blog

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When I realized it is so convenient to write blog directly using R Markdown, I searched if there is a specialized tool for it. And I found Blogdown, an R package written by Yihui Xie, who is also the author of R Markdown. The new blog is hosted on github:


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