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Carbon dioxide (CO~2~) is one of the key green house gases which play an important role in the global climate change. In academia, the sources and sinks of CO~2~ are estimated with the flux density, e.g. the amount of CO~2~ passing through a unit area in a unit time. Estimates of net ecosystem CO~2~ exchange have been attracting a lot of attention. The research on the advection flux takes care of the contribution of the advection term to the CO~2~ balance.

[New Project] steemr: an R package to download, play with, and visualize Steem data

By Peng Zhao

June 12, 2018

When I became active on steemit.com in July 2017, the first thing for me to do was to find an R package to process Steem data. As an R user and package developer, it would have been amazing if I could easily download my posts, my operations, my communications with others on Steem, and analyze the data with the power of R language.

Unfortunately, I found nothing.

[Task Request] Starting layout of the mindmaps

By Peng Zhao

April 18, 2018

As an R package, mindr is used to convert markdown files into mindmaps, and vice versa. It can also convert tibble dataframes into mindmaps. A brief introduction can be found in one of my previous posts: mindr: an R package that creates a markdown post out of a mind map. Thanks to the support from utopian.io!

[Task Request] Heteronym problem

By Peng Zhao

April 12, 2018

Heteronym is a common lingual phenomenon in the most languages. Wikepedia:

A heteronym (also known as a heterophone) is a word that has a different pronunciation and meaning as another word but the same spelling.

中文段首加空格和增加段落间距（steemit markdown）

By dapeng in cn

August 13, 2017

原文链接: steemit, cnsteem, chainbb, busy, markdown 　有朋友在 steemit 的 cn-reader 的微信群里问了一个 markdown 中文排版的问题：如何为中文段首增加空格，以及改变段落间的间距。这个简单：使用中文的全角空格。　　一般的中文输入法都有上述设置界面。点一下弯月符号（或快捷键shift+空格）就变成满月，这就是全角。此时按空格键，就会输入一个汉字宽度的空白。所以，段首输入两个全角空白就行了。　不过，如果是紧跟在非普通文本（全文第一段，插图，代码等）后面，这种方法会失效，那么可以在全角空格前面加上个<br>就行了。　一般来说，在markdown编辑器里输入全角空格后再换行，就会多插入一行空白。下面我们用这种方法输入一行空白。　　　但连续几个空行 steemit 就不支持了。那么可以输入： <br> 也同样是插入一个空行。输入几个<br>就插入几个空行。下面，我们插入两个空行。　<br>其实是 html 语言的代码。“全角空格”是html界的魔法占位符。善用“全角空格”这个小魔法，就可以实现诸如　对　齐　等其他功能。　要想使用复杂的格式，就需要复杂的命令或按钮来排版，容易偏离对内容的关注。而 steemit 使用的 markdown 语法，在内容和形式之间达到了最微妙的平衡，让你用最简单的指令，实现日常99%以上的排版需求。　不过，markdown 也尊重其他1%用户的特殊需求。原则上，markdown 支持 html，所以，要想对你的帖子的格式进行复杂排版，那么就学习 html 吧，少年！　中文段首空格原本是用来印刷时方便划分自然段的。在网络时代，自然段完全可以通过段落间距看得出来，所以段首空格丧失了原本的意义。不过，作为对纸质书和印刷时代的怀念，用一下段首空格，不失为一种情怀吧。