Today I’ve had to complete one of the course deliverables with some indications about how to compile the .Rmd files. The courses I’m giving (partially) at Grenoble INP Génie Industriel (GI) are mostly oriented for the first and second year students on the engineering track. This means that the level of heterogeneity in the knowledge across the groups is extreme and while some of them are more than capable to use R for document compilation, others encounter difficulties with this task.

Cette publication est orienté vers les étudiants qui vont suivre des cours ou faire de Projets / mener des TER avec moi cette année. Elle vise à proposer un aperçu des outils essentiels pour faciliter et simplifier le travail. Particulièrement :

• Git
• GitHub/GitLab/BitBucket (ici nous parlerons du GitLab hebergé par GRICAD)
• LaTeX
• Markdown
• RMarkdown

Ce sont des outils principaux pour bien organiser son travail de la recherche et pouvoir l’accompagner par des supports numeriques.

Today’s’ experience with helping to submit an article for a journal of Taylor & Francis group was educative and energy draining at the same time. Yesterday was quite a long day dedicated to styling the document, while now I had only figures to worry about. Later, I’ll definitely have to write some guide about academic writing and how R software, which can be useful in this aspect. But now lets speak about some useful tips in using tikz.