A new RStudio addin to facilitate inserting tables in rmarkdown documents

In the last months, I started increasingly using Rmd documents for preparing scientific reports, blog posts, etcetera. While I really like the flexibility offered by the system, one thing that I thought could be improved is the support for easily inserting tables. So, “inspired” also by the recent addition of the excellent insert image addin in blogdown, I decided to give it a go and try to implement some kind of addin to facilitate table insertion in Rmd documents.

After struggling a bit due to my rather nonexistent shiny skills, in the end I managed to obtain a “basic but useful” (IMO) addin.

See full post on my new blogdown page here: https://lbusett.netlify.com/post/a-new-rstudio-addin-to-facilitate-inserting-tables-in-rmarkdown-documents/

Automatically importing publications from bibtex to a hugo-academic blog

The problem

I am in the process of migrating my (rather ugly) small blog from “Bloggers” to `blogdown` and, as several others, I choose to use the hugo-academic theme due to its good looks, simplicity, and “focus” towards researchers.

One nice feature of hugo-academic is that it includes out-of-the-box a “Publications” section, allowing researchers to easily create a list of their publication as a section of the website.

Unfortunately, in order to populate that list, users have to manually create one different .md file for each publication, by cutting and pasting several different info (e.g., title, authors, etc.) in a "simple" template like this one.

THIS IS BORING!