Carl Boettiger

Apparently you *can* get blackfriday to parse markdown within a div by altering the use of whitespace; for instance, in the following example the markdown inside the divs is parsed...

Any hints on how to enable Maruku with support for fenced code blocks in Jekyll (intelligible to a non-ruby-developer)? To start, how do I install the gem corresponding to the...

Thanks for the link, just installed the bundler gem. I'm a bit dense, looks like I need to run ``` gem "maruku", :git => "https://github.com/distler/maruku.git" :branch => "nokogiri" ``` to...

@distler I cloned your Nokogiri branch and ran `bundle install` successfully to install it. Running Jekyll with Maruku as the interpreter, I still do not get fenced code blocks like...

The `units` package in R is based on the Unidata units, which include all SI units. I agree that Unidata units are probably a much better choice for us than...

👏 I think it might be potentially more robust to have a function that just extracts the metadata and returns an R object which contains the download urls? e.g. something...

I am all for exaggerated metaphors! Also a good chance for us to think carefully about our namespace — eg we have create_spice which really creates spreadsheet templates, and write_spice...

Perhaps not much of a concern for us at this time, but this does assume that the data file is committed to `git`, which is often not ideal and will...

Great idea! How would Rmd output format work? I might imagine something like asking the user to add a command like ```{r} embed_spice() ``` to their `.Rmd`, which would create...

@amoeba Google's structured data validation tool sees it anywhere in the file, don't think it has to be in the ``. I like the the Rmd template strategy! Perhaps one...