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Pandoc is awesome. It’s the universal translator for plain-text documents. I especially like that it can do inline citations. I write @Jones2005 proved aliens exist and pandoc produces “Jones (2005) proved aliens exist”. But it doesn’t quite d... [Read more...]

I wrote an answer about why setNames() shows up sometimes in standard evaluation with dplyr. My explanation turned into a mini-tutorial on why those standard evaluation functions have a .dots argument. The basic idea is that the usual variadic argume... [Read more...]

How many late talkers are just late bloomers? More precisely, how many children identified as late talkers at 18 months catch up to the normal range by one year later? This is an important question. From a clinical perspective, we want to support children with language delays, but it is also ... [Read more...]