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Companion page to the iDiv 2026 conference poster. renv, pins, testthat and rmarkdown: what each one solves, how they fit together, and the details that did not fit…

Publishing a research repository

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For the weekly team meeting of the Biodiversity Synthesis group, I prepared a, Quarto, presentation about Publishing a Research Repository. In this presentation and during…

Tech news 12: Simple reproductibility in R

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Tech News #12? It’s been a year and we are arriving at the end of a cycle as tech news #13 is not planned. It’s been a pleasure writing these 12 newsletters and thinking…

Tech news 11: Facilitating… admin tasks

Filling in PDF forms and sending personalised emails

Tech news 10: Pipes

Pipes are present is many languages and they allow passing objects from one function to another without having to create an intermediary object and keeping a logical and…

Tech news 9: Testing data

Looking inside the data you receive and produce is an absolute necessity but if you could have a second pair of eyes able to scan millions of rows in fractions of seconds…

Saving the camera settings of a shot in the exif data of the scans

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For decades (centuries?) photographers have been writing their camera settings for each shot on a notebook to learn and train their eye, to organise their shots or because…

Tech news 8: Sharing code through your own R package

This month, I thought of writing a little bit about sharing code with each other.

Tech news 7: `tidymodels`

This week’s email is about tidymodels.

How I moved the website to albansagouis.com

The website was hosted for free by github at the address albansagouis.github.io, thank you GitHub, but I thought a more personal address would be nice and it would be a good…

Building the website online or locally?

A short blogpost about the process I just followed to switch my website online building + publishing process to a more local, more free and faster workflow.

Choosing a new 35mm analog camera

The Nikon FA checked quite a lot of my criteria and it’s among the cheapest!

My discovery of analog photography

I began using digital cameras a long time ago without trying to understand the technicalities of it until I got serious about bird photography. Then I really got into the…

How I created this website

This is my first blog article on this website, well first blog article ever I guess. And it’s about the process I followed to build it. I downloaded the minimal mistake repo…

Tech news 6: Creating animated figures

This week, some fun with animated figures. We send each other gifs but they rarely come to mind when it comes to showing scientific processes or results. They are actually…

Tech news 5: Working with data files too large for memory

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Today, I’d like to discuss data we might need that are larger than memory, or fit in memory but everything freezes…

Tech news 4: Reporting your figures and model results in your manuscript

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This month the audience is increasing, besides the Biodiversity Synthesis group, the iCode Coding Club mailing list will receive this email (and the next).

Tech news 3: Building a free website easy

This month, I thought of giving you some basic info on how to build a website the easy way to have a personal space where to advertise yourself or your current project.…

Tech news 2: Publishing code

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Disclaimer: this blog post is my opinion, at the time of writing, and might not reflect the opinion of my employer, or mine today.

Tech news 1: Spatial packages

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There is important news I want to share with you and I thought I could make this a regular thing so every third Friday of the month, I’ll send news that I think are useful…