Post tagged: restructured-text

Porting this site to Pelican

On making a simpler website in a slightly complicated way.

Background

Way, way back, this site ran on various permutations of PHP-based frameworks. Getting sick of ugly URLs and having to vigilantly update the software so as to avoid hacks (and still periodically falling victim to various hacks), I went in search of a Python-based framework that I could customize …

Writing knitr in restructured text

Swapping out Markdown for a different markup.

knitr is a useful R package/tool for documenting analysis. Basically, it allows the embedding of R code "chunks" within a simple text document. This document can then be "knitted", which means that the R code is interpreted and reinserted in the document along with the results of that code …