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Changing Fonts in Latex/RMarkdown

You many want to switch away from the default font in LaTex / R Markdown.

Common Tasks in R

If you are just getting started with R, I recommend following along with Kosuke Imai’s textbook Quantitative Social Science (https://pr…

Common Tasks in Python

Python

This post will review some frequent tasks in Python.

Web scraping with a headless browser in Python

Python

Web scraping

Javascript

While R works fairly well for scraping basic html (packages rvest, httr, etc.), you may run into issues when trying to scrape material from websites with Javascript.

High-resolution plots in GGPlot and RMarkdown: How to adjust font and element sizing

GGplot2

RMarkdown

Data visualization

When saving GGPlot2 plots in high resolution, you may run into problems with font and plot element sizing.

Using Beamer in RMarkdown: Change list item bullet point styles

Beamer

RMarkdown

I’ve recently gotten started with using Beamer in RMarkdown (RMD). Some of the Beamer advice is for those using…