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                                            Mike Dolan Fliss

please add this to your readme.md - it is a serious limitation to be unable to email compiled rmarkdown reports with figures

Didn't realize this. Very helpful to know.

DSTK alternatives?

You might check out the R package [tidycensus](https://walkerke.github.io/tidycensus/) (and related packages) which uses the Census API for demographic extraction - I've been really enjoying it. It's not perfect, but there...

www.datasciencetoolkit.org is down

I experienced the same. I found a few forks my R code could reference... but then ended up with using the new geocoding API from the census. Note Pete Warden's...

www.datasciencetoolkit.org is down

Yeah. FWIW, this thread seems to celebrate GisGraphy. Seems to work locally if you can manage to set it up. http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/18871/is-there-an-open-source-geocoding-tool-which-can-be-used-commercially On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 12:15 PM, fredclown...

Write / overwrite a sheet in an existing excel workbook (without overwriting entire workbook)?

That's helpful information I wasn't aware of, thanks. That's a big limitation for my use cases.

Handle fixed-width (ish) files that end the final field prematurely?

Thanks for following up! It's definitely more an issue of the data file than LaF, and for fixed-width LaF obviously requires that structure for access. Creating a new reader might...