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The power of tapping into your community for support
This week the owner of my favorite Mexican restaurant in Baltimore, Rosalyn Vera, got death and arson1 threats. I could have been a bystander, but I tapped into my network and asked for help and she has received it.
Last updated on Tue, Jul 11, 2023 10 min read rstats, Misc
Asking for help is challenging but is typically worth it
Recently I’ve been thinking on the subject of asking for help. In short, it’s hard to ask for help. It involves admitting to yourself that you can’t solve the problem alone, opening yourself up, hoping that another person will understand you and guide you in the right direction.
Last updated on Tue, Jul 11, 2023 9 min read Computing, Misc, rstats
A knot of threads: from CSHL to LCG-UNAM to Aldo Barrientos to diversity scholarship opportunities
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve started to write this post in my mind since May 2018. Today I’m finally typing it on the computer. This will be a rather long post that ties in several threads.
Last updated on Tue, Jul 11, 2023 13 min read Conference, Misc, UNAM, rstats
Steps for writing a Twitter summary conference blog post
I recently wrote several blog posts with many tweets1 as a way of taking notes during the American Society of Human Genetics 2018 conference. A few friends asked me how I did this so fast.
Last updated on Tue, Jul 11, 2023 6 min read Conference, rstats
R Gene Regulatory Interaction Formulator For Inquiring Networks
This blog post was written by ME Martinez-Sanchez, S Muñoz, M Carrillo, E Azpeitia, D Rosenblueth and originally posted at the CDSB blog.1 In this blog post we will describe the package rGriffin (Martinez-Sanchez, Muñoz, Carrillo, Azpeitia, et al.
Last updated on Sun, May 1, 2022 8 min read rstats, UNAM
Getting ready to attend rOpenSci unconf18 and probably working on tidyverse-like functions for the first time
It’s Friday 7pm and it’s been a long week with ups and downs1. But I’m enthused as I write this blog post. In less than a month from now I’ll be attending rOpenSci unconf18 and it’ll be my first time at this type of event.
Last updated on Tue, Jul 11, 2023 9 min read rstats
Latin American R/BioConductor Developers Workshop 2018
Today I’m excited to invite you to attend the Latin American R/BioConductor Developers Workshop 2018! It’ll be held in Cuernavaca, Mexico from July 30th to August 3rd, 2018. You can find the official announcement in the Bioconductor support website.
Last updated on Tue, Jul 11, 2023 6 min read rstats, UNAM
blogdown archetype (template)
In a recent blog post I wrote about having a template for blogdown posts. I wanted to know if it was possible to do this and make my life (and others hopefully) easier for writing new blog posts that are ready to go with the features I frequently re-use.
Last updated on Tue, Jul 11, 2023 6 min read rstats
blogdown Insert Image addin
Have you ever tried inserting an image into a blogdown post? Maybe you have, or maybe you tried and gave up. Lets first review the hard way before getting to the solution I contributed.
Last updated on Tue, Jul 11, 2023 8 min read rstats
R markdown blog template
This blog post is mostly for myself but maybe it’s useful to others. It contains my current R markdown blog template. I initially posted this as a question at StackOverflow. Then I read how much a burden we put in Yihui Xie and decided that my current setup (copy-pasting) works just fine.
Last updated on Tue, Jul 11, 2023 5 min read rstats