Hello World!

Hello world!

It is an appropriate greeting for my first blog post, wouldn’t you agree? I am writing this post - made the website too - using the R blogdown package and Hugo Wowchemy theme. It’s been a confusing and long-ish journey of about six months (probably more), but here I am.

And it feels great. I had this (somewhat adamant) desire to make a website using R. I was told that there are easier ways to make a website and that R has a steep learning curve. I couldn’t convince myself to let go of the desire anyway. When I was struggling to complete some data analysis for a project, I spent many late nights randomly reading posts on why R is a useful language to learn for statistical analysis. That’s clearly made an impression on me. Though my lab doesn’t utilize R at all, I figure it is only a matter of time I will have the chance to use it.

Making this website has been a good start. I am curious to see where another six months plus of tinkering with different R packages will get me in terms of skill level. Hoping for the best!