References in LaTeX table

You cannot put references in pdf_output? Finally, after long (definitely too long) break I came with something hopefully useful. Recently I was working on some templates for reports for my previous work. Long story short I wanted to create a bookdown package, that will contain full template of report, which will be converted into html and pdf files. Since I was working with people who had no knowledge on R, LaTeX, HTML, or other programming stuff, I decided that i will have single file in RMarkdown that will compile into both html and tex.
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Creating package from dirty code Previously I wrote some post on creating nice, human readable tables from EPPO database. However the code was full of fragile parts, formatting was awful and it needed some refactoring. As I wanted to push myself, I decided it is good time to try to work on making first package. And this means a lot of work. Don’t get me wrong, making package from what I wrote previously would probably take less than several hours of work.
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Genereric pest spread models Assessing spread of quarantine pest under new climatic conditions is not an easy task. This kind of model must combine climatic, spatial and pest climatic suitability data. Unfortunately that is not enough in most cases. To make model that resembles reality it should also include pest biology: it’s movement abilities, reproduction, maximum population density, host availability etc. Taking all above into account we may conclude that it is extremely hard to make generic spread model.
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Michal J. Czyz

Hello!
Why to write yet another blog on R? The Answer is quite straightforward. Recently I figured out that I am stuck in a moment with R skills. There are two solutions to this problem:
  • Find a mentor.
  • Write a blog.
The latter seems to be better solution with additional benefits.
  1. Boosting writing in English skills.
  2. Forcing to be more organized.
  3. Chance to show code.
  4. Obtain proficiency in RMarkdown ;)
Thus, I hope you will enjoy it and will find some usefull things for yourselves.

Biologist

Poland