Jon Zelner

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icon company University of Michigan icon location Ann Arbor, MI icon location Social epidemiologist with a focus on infectious disease and computational methods at the University of Michigan School of Public Health

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Workflow for publications using Rmarkdown with users that won't get passed Word/Google docs

This is maybe a bit off-topic here, but has anyone come up with a way to make the gdoc/work -> RMD conversion work s/t the R sections are retained? This...

Workflow for publications using Rmarkdown with users that won't get passed Word/Google docs

This is great! To me, the ultimate outcome would be to let someone edit and use track changes on a Word/GDoc compiled from RMD, and to then be able to...

Workflow for publications using Rmarkdown with users that won't get passed Word/Google docs

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Workflow for publications using Rmarkdown with users that won't get passed Word/Google docs

I do wonder if there's a solution to many of these problems that doesn't reinvent too many wheels and is more of a workflow solution. For example, I try to...

Workflow for publications using Rmarkdown with users that won't get passed Word/Google docs

Hi Will, Thanks! I think drake is definitely a big part of the solution here (currently trying to wean myself off of Makefiles towards drake to ease collaboration with those...

Workflow for publications using Rmarkdown with users that won't get passed Word/Google docs

Here's what I'm envisioning. This would work for most of my collaboration headaches, but I don't know how many other folks' problems it would solve: 1) Compile to a zipfile...

Collaboration workflow for users who are willing to use RStudio

Thanks for summarizing this! Just to clarify, the idea would be to streamline the process of creating a key-value backend for an RMD. This idea would be aimed particularly aimed...

Lesson/Examples of how to clean 'field' data

I think this is actually a pretty broad problem, at least in epidemiology. For example, if you're using data from a hospital-based reporting system, the fields in the raw data...