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• knitr — A general-purpose tool for dynamic report generation in R

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• knitr-examples — A collection of knitr examples

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• yihui.org — Personal website and discussion board of Yihui Xie | 谢益辉

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• xfun — Miscellaneous R functions

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• litedown — A lightweight version of R Markdown (without using Pandoc or knitr)

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• Should I Ask for Sponsorship?

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• A Review of **rmarkdown** Updates from 2024 to 2026

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• The Library Innovation Lab at Harvard University: “Binoc is a command-line tool and library that, given two snapshots of a dataset, efficiently summarizes the differences between the two snapshots in a human-readable changelog.” lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2026/07...

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• gitit — A wiki using HAppS, pandoc, and git

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• emojis — Haskell library for emojis

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• chrome-edge-extension-github-copilot-render — A Chrome and Edge extension that makes GitHub Copilot customization files easier to read directly on GitHub.

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• Preliminary Support for Typst in knitr

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• shipdoc — README + Changelog generator for GitHub repos

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• A multinational Delphi consensus to end the COVID-19 public health threat

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