Tips and tricks

Some tips and tricks I’ve gathered along the way.

Workflow and tools

• How this website is made: forked from Academic pages with github, with a guide here
• Easily making graphs that are compatible with LaTeX (graphs exportable as tikz): mathcha.io
• A table generator for LaTex, Markdown and html: Tables Generator
• Extracting tables from pdf files: tabula
• Visualizing tool for literature searches: Connected Papers

R

• World and regional country maps with Rworldmap
• Relative paths in R with here: the (very welcome) end of “setwd()”

Julia

• Data Frames performance tips

Advice posts

• Tatyana Deryugina’s “What I’ve learned from being a journal editor”