https://support.rbind.io/ Recent content on Rbind Support Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Mon, 28 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://support.rbind.io/2019/01/28/entyrely-too-much/ Mon, 28 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://support.rbind.io/2019/01/28/entyrely-too-much/ Looking at the fantastic pages put together by everyone else leaves me agog at the great company here on rbind.io! My own efforts are sporadic and mostly serve as a vehicle for my own learning about the internet. And oh! what a learning process that is. Painfully slow, with many steps sideways and back. Where are the tags?!1 Why are the chapter links in my bookdown book suddenly 404’ing?!!2 https://support.rbind.io/2018/11/12/data-science-blog/ Mon, 12 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://support.rbind.io/2018/11/12/data-science-blog/ Between 2012 and 2017, the demand for data scientists has increased by a whopping 650%. Why is data science such a hot topic? There are multiple factors at play: Emerging technologies are producing decidedly more data than previously and these data need to be dealt with. Recent advances in machine learning have produced new algorithms that are particularly suitable for big data. Digitization is steadily advancing and data analytics are an important aspect of this trend. https://support.rbind.io/2018/02/19/introduction-to-aaron-simumba-website/ Mon, 19 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://support.rbind.io/2018/02/19/introduction-to-aaron-simumba-website/ Introduction Hi, my name is Aaron Simumba, and you can find my website on the following URL: https://asimumba.rbind.io/. And on Github, plus you can follow me on Twitter. A brief background about myself: I often like to refer to myself as a “Lost Accountant” - because professionally I trained as an accountant, who lost his way to practise accounting and ended up into the data science space. I was excited to be in finance and accounting, I loved all the glory that came with working with financial data. https://support.rbind.io/2017/06/16/academic-site-apreshill/ Fri, 16 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://support.rbind.io/2017/06/16/academic-site-apreshill/ About me I am a professor of pediatrics in Oregon Health & Science University’s Center for Spoken Language Understanding. My research focuses on autism, and I teach graduate-level courses in OHSU’s Computer Science education program. I also have developed and led several R workshops and smaller team-based training sessions, and love to train new “useRs”. And believe it or not, I have never had a website! This was way overdue, so when I saw blogdown, I decided I had no excuses left since I could now do everything from the comfort of RStudio. https://support.rbind.io/2017/05/29/romain-francois-s-site-with-blogdown-hugo-rbind/ Mon, 29 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://support.rbind.io/2017/05/29/romain-francois-s-site-with-blogdown-hugo-rbind/ I have used many platforms for blogging over the years (dotclear, wordpress, ghost) and none of them really made me happy about their workflow. I even lost some content that lived in some server I failed to renew despite the many warnings about upcoming deletion. I managed to pull back some content from the web archive and other places using various rvest foo. I’ve now moved to the awesome combo hugo/blogdown/github/netlify. https://support.rbind.io/2017/05/29/welcome-to-ewenme-you-n-me/ Mon, 29 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://support.rbind.io/2017/05/29/welcome-to-ewenme-you-n-me/ A little bit on me I’m Ewen, an analyst and data science hopeful with a social sciences background, currently working in UK government. Why start a site? I’ve been using R for data science-type workflows pretty intensively for about a year-and-a-half, and I had the realisation a few months back that I felt ready to add something to this conversation. I was also listening a lot to a journalism podcast, Longform, and they made writing sound quite noble/fun. https://support.rbind.io/2017/05/15/converting-robjhyndman-to-blogdown/ Mon, 15 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://support.rbind.io/2017/05/15/converting-robjhyndman-to-blogdown/ Some history I started my website in 1993, only a few months after the WWW was put into the public domain. I began by looking at some existing sites to see how html worked, and then writing my own handcrafted html files. I maintained those html files for about 13 years, through several domain name changes as the web matured, and as I moved between institutions. In 2006 I was convinced that using a content management system would make my life easier, and I converted the site to Joomla. https://support.rbind.io/2017/04/29/liechi-site/ Sat, 29 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://support.rbind.io/2017/04/29/liechi-site/ My website is generated by Hugo through blogdown. The files used to build the site are hosted in a repository on Github, and published to webpages by Netlify. My posts are written with RStudio, in which the addins make it easy and natural to start writing. This site is an adaption of Yihui’s site, that is to say, if you are interested in how it is built, you can refer to the excellent introduction by Yihui about the technical details. https://support.rbind.io/2017/04/28/daijiang-website/ Fri, 28 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://support.rbind.io/2017/04/28/daijiang-website/ I am an ecologist and statistician, working as a postdoc currently. For me, what I need is a website that I can introduce myself to the public, archive some of my experiences, and communicate my thoughts with others. So I do not need fancy stuff. Static website fits this bill perfectly. I need a tool that can deal with most of the website constructing and I can focus on the content. https://support.rbind.io/2017/04/28/landau-website/ Fri, 28 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://support.rbind.io/2017/04/28/landau-website/ I am delighted to share my online blog and portfolio, will-landau.com. The GitHub Pages functionality originally inspired me to build it, and Jekyll has powered it since 2012. After agonizing over the design for years, I finally chose the slim theme by Alex Sun, plus a few added niceties such as the Ubuntu font. Now, I can totally focus on the content, unobstructed by cumbersome aesthetic-related code and confident that the layout is solid and easy to maintain. https://support.rbind.io/2017/04/27/r-podcast-website/ Thu, 27 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://support.rbind.io/2017/04/27/r-podcast-website/ In The Beginning … When I launched the R-Podcast back in 2012, my main goal was to create content that illustrated the power and capabilities of R for both those who are new to statistical computing and those who already have extensive experience with R and/or other statistical computing languages. On top of producing the audio podcasts and screencasts, it was important to create a robust and comprehensive online presence to share additional details and resources to my listeners. https://support.rbind.io/2017/04/27/choyang-website/ Thu, 27 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://support.rbind.io/2017/04/27/choyang-website/ So, you want start a personal website? And you are an R user? Then the R package blogdown is probably the best choice to create a static website that is generated from plain Markdown or R Markdown documents. My website was build with the hugo-academic framework, a perfect theme for personal or academic websites, and is hosted on Netlify. I made some customization according to personal needs, such as customizing the homepage widgets, changing website icon and enabling multilingual feature (both English and Simplified Chinese). https://support.rbind.io/2017/04/25/yihui-website/ Tue, 25 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://support.rbind.io/2017/04/25/yihui-website/ If you are a beginner of blogdown and Hugo, I don’t recommend you to read the source code of my website. It was very heavily customized due to my OCD and the fact that I want to build an English blog, a Chinese blog, and a few project websites (like knitr and animation) together in one repository. Anyway, my Github repository is at https://github.com/rbind/yihui. Warning: if you are a beginner, please do not study my website source files (yet). https://support.rbind.io/2017/04/24/launching-rbind-support/ Mon, 24 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://support.rbind.io/2017/04/24/launching-rbind-support/ As we quoted Carlos Scheidegger in the blogdown book: “if you don’t have a website nowadays, you don’t exist.” So we hope to help as many people to set up their own websites as possible. There are extremely mature solutions like WordPress, and why Rbind? Of course, Rbind is not for everyone, and it is based on the following philosophies in which we believe: Static websites are easier to maintain. https://support.rbind.io/about/ Sat, 20 Jun 2015 14:02:37 +0200 https://support.rbind.io/about/ The goal of the Rbind project is to provide a service like WordPress.com or Medium, but driven by the community1 instead of a certain company. We hope users can help each other to build the websites they want. Currently most websites in this project are built using the blogdown package, but you are welcome to use other tools if you want. To make it easier to discover websites and get inspirations from other people’s websites, we created the Github organization “rbind” as a central place to host all websites.