Next steps for the books
Time for a checkup on what I need to do/my thoughts on the two books.
I have taken a step back from completing the notes those last two months, because I felt overwhelmed by everything I had to do, life-wise. I need to finish the chapter on panel data analysis (and eventually the one on social network analysis), and I have to introduce the following chapters:
- Datamining: text analysis, web scrapping, mapping.
- Exploratory data analysis (analyse géométrique des données):
- Correspondance analysis (analyse factorielle des correspondances),
- Principal component analysis (analyse en composantes principales),
- Multiple correspondance analysis (analyse des correspondances multiples),
- Hierarchical clustering (classification ascendantes hiérarchique).
- (I am considering it) Quick introduction to RMarkdown.
I really like bookdown
’s layout, but I am growing annoyed with having to knit the entire book whenever I add a new chapter or when I change the name of a single header. If I do not, the referencing goes haywire.
Which is why I am currently rebuilding the main book on blogdown
, with Wowchemy’s project documentation template and with the deployment handled by Netlify. This workflow’s advantage is that I can use .md
files for simple text (Goldmark will then built the HTML files) and .Rmardkdown
files for when I include some R codes. I knit those into Markdown files and that is it. No need to build the entire book every time.
I have not firmly settled on this method, I am only trying it out of curiosity.