Christophe Dervieux is a software engineer at RStudio (Posit) working on the R Markdown ecosystem, including rmarkdown, knitr, blogdown, and bookdown. He shares tips and experiences with R, reproducible reporting, and open-source contributions.
7 articles from this blog
Explains how to update pre-installed tools like GitHub CLI on GitHub-hosted runners when the default version is outdated, using brew or .deb packages.
A step-by-step guide to setting up signed Git commits using Keybase and GPG on Windows 10, including installation and configuration.
A guide on using knitr and R Markdown to automatically collect and display all figure alt text (fig.alt) in an appendix.
An R developer announces the revival of their blog to share technical knowledge and experiences from working on R Markdown and open source at RStudio.
A personal blog by an RStudio software engineer sharing findings, tips, and experiences with the R programming language and its ecosystem.
Analyzing CRAN packages to find non-English R packages, focusing on French documentation and encoding fields in DESCRIPTION files.
A technical analysis of the evolution and OS-specific behaviors of R's download.file function, focusing on changes from versions 3.2.5 to 3.3.0.
