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[R: New Features on pinyin] Convert Chinese Characters into Sijiao and Wubi codes

What features did I add?

  • Four times faster for converting.
  • At the beginning of the year 2018 I received an issue report by psychelzh about a polyphone error. Now a new pinyin library has been added, which more or less solved the polyphone problem.
  • Convert Chinese characters into Sijiao codes (literally four corner code).
  • and Wubi codes (literally five-stroke).
  • Some minor bugs were fixed.

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[R: New Features on mindr] Supports the new format of FreeMind. Displays mind maps directly. Supports bookdown projects.

In the recent months, I have received many kind feedbacks and helpful suggestions from mindr users. I did not improve or enhance mindr until the latest week. Now the new version 1.1.5 brings more exciting features.

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bookdownplus gallery: a web app for displaying and sharing bookdown templates

Many years ago, I collected some LaTeX templates when learning LaTeX. However, my interest in LaTeX was gone after submitting my PhD dissertation. I should have deleted these templates if they had not been so small. They would never be useful in the future, I thought.

In 2017, I started writing the book Learning R: R for Rookies . Unexpectedly, MS Word could not satisfy me with the typesetting. You know what I mean if you have experience (and pain) in writing a long book or dissertation with Word. Actually I suffered more, but I do not want to talk about it. I was sure that LaTeX could, but I would rather not use it.

Like a bolt out of the blue, I found bookdown.

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[New Features on steemr] Display all the posts of a give Steemian with statistics, and get the utopian review and upvote plan!

  • A new functionsposts() displays a Shiny app, which is a user friendly interactive UI to show all the posts of a give Steemian's ID. Analysis diagrams are plotted as well, including the distribution of the post payout and votes, the active hour of the Steemian's posting, and the time series of the growth of the cumulative post number, payout, and votes.

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[New Features on steemr] Diagrams in the Shiny app for the statistics of the Steem CN community!

I added diagrams into the Shiny app scner(). These diagrams include the word clouds of the Steemians of the CN community, as well as the histograms for the distributions according to the ESP, account value, online-days, etc..

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[New Features on steemr] A Shiny app for the statistics of the Steem CN community!

A new functionscner() displays a Shiny app, which is a user friendly interactive UI for the statistics of a group of Steemians, hereby those who are active in the CN community. It has the potential to be used for other groups of Steemians with some simple modifications to this function.

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A template for Copernicus academic journals

Write academic papers of Copernicus journals with R markdown syntax.

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A template for MDPI academic journals

Write academic papers of Copernicus journals with R markdown syntax.

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[New Features on steemr] Diagrams in the follower shiny app!

A comment by the utopian.io moderator mentioned that the wordings of both 'followers but not following', 'following but not followers' are confusing. Although they are the official callings that I cannot change, a diagram could help. Therefore, I added a Venn diagram into the sfollow()shiny app.

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[Tutorial for steemr] Retrieving and Analyzing the Comment Data

What Will I Learn?

  • Using the function gcomment() to retrieve the comment data of a given ID.
  • Using other R functions to enhance and analyze the data retrieved by gcomment().

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