2025
Research Workflow with Quarto + {targets}
{targets} is an R package for building research workflows. Its primary feature is managing R objects (data, functions, and results) and their dependencies, automatically…
2024
A Gamechanger of Creating Tables in R: tinytable
In recent years, kableExtra and gt have been popular packages for creating tables in R. I have used kableExtra for tables in a (LaTeX compiled) paper, and gt for tables in a…
Jupyter Notebook and R Markdown are very useful tools for communication with co-authors and supervisors during the trial and error stage of research. However, as these files…
2023
A Minimal & Portable Research Environment with Docker
Since Docker is a simple and clean method to guarantee the replicablity of the research, I have been using Docker environments for my research since 2020. During these three…
Scientific Communication with Quarto: Economic Models
Notebook coding (Jupyter, Rmarkdown, and Quarto) has gotten popular in the last decade. It allows us to tell a story with code and data, and it makes scientific…
A common misunderstanding about Quarto is that we cannot use multiple languages within a document. Indeed, Jupyter cannot use multiple languages within a document, and we…
2022
Some Quarto Tips for Academic Presentation
The other day, I used slides made with Quarto in a presentation at a conference. In the Economics community, 98% of people use Beamer of \(\LaTeX\), and about 2% use…
Docker is one of the best environments for reproductivity of the research. I use Docker for basically all my projects, but it took me about 2 years to get to a satisfactory…
