Today, I needed to update the version of Rtools I use at work. But: the original installation was done by IT, in the default path of C:/Rtools; I don’t have write access there, and I didn’t want to wait for IT to do it for me.

When googling… something1 blogdown related, I stumbled onto some slides from an R-Ladies workshop, where Alison Persmanes Hill goes through the process of setting up a website with blogdown and Hugo.

Today, I answered a StackOverflow question where the author was implementing a function for finding the mean of a continuous random variable, given its probability density function (PDF). In the process of writing up my answer, I ended up applying some functional programming techniques (specifically function factories).