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When a girl asked me 20 years ago "What a perfect date would be", I answered enthusiastically "ISO8601, of course". I'm still single today, and I don't know why. (Just kidding :)

To be honest, I can feel the "cultishness" you mentioned, but I'm curious if you also feel that for R Markdown products (which are mostly irrelevant to Tidyverse). If you do, I'd l…

I'm one of the main developers of R Markdown. As @jcheng said, it is definitely not our intention to lock you in RStudio for any of our R packages. You probably can't imagine how h…

We have tried for almost four years without success: https://github.com/rstudio/rmarkdown/issues/1020 We did hear back from Github for a few times, but there has been no sign of pr…

Thanks for the kind words (about me and RStudio)! Well, you might be too optimistic about people not commenting on R. Usually I tend to avoid reading HN, but I feel pretty much eve…

A few differences I spotted as I quickly read the Softcover book (I'm the main author of bookdown, so I could be biased): Bookdown is built on top of R Markdown, which means it has…

Because PDF is for printing purposes. There could be many many problem if you copy and paste from PDF (white spaces being eaten, ligatures, curly quotes, en/em-dashes, ...; almost …

> First of all, this is for statistics based papers, not just "technical papers". The blog post is not really long, and in the fourth paragraph, I wrote: > [...] We used books and …

Yes, the syntax is LaTeX (thanks to MathJax). See Chapter 2 of the bookdown book: https://bookdown.org/yihui/bookdown/

Just for the record, if you follow the Download RStudio link on the RStudio homepage, or go to Products -> RStudio, you will see the license clearly mentioned before you try to dow…

It is not that we encourage a "hackish development style", but computer scientists and statisticians/data analysts are solving different problems, and statisticians' primary job is…

Isn't this a simple instruction you give students in the very first class like "before you submit your homework, restart R session, and make sure your submission runs in the new se…

Python will be better supported in knitr in future; for now it only has preliminary support: http://yihui.name/knitr/demo/engines/