If you’re encountering the following LaTeX error when compiling a Bookdown or Quarto PDF document:
! LaTeX Error: Mismatched LaTeX support files detected.
(LaTeX) Loading 'expl3.sty' aborted!
(LaTeX) The L3 programming layer in the LaTeX format
(LaTeX) is dated 2025-03-26, but in your TeX tree the files require
(LaTeX) at least 2025-04-14.
From .R Files to R Packages: A Game Changer for Empirical Researchers
Hello, fellow data enthusiasts! Today, we’re going to embark on a journey that will take us from a scattered mess of .
After several hours struggling with multiple recommendations by
David Fong
Salmon
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Michele Scipioni
I still cannot see my comment section using https://utteranc.es/
I realize I did not have my webpage repo public.
If you work with multiple work stations (multiple computers/laptops) sharing the same cloud folder. You might encounter this problem. Your Rstudio in different computers will have different default paths to install and load packages.
If you work with bookdown, Latex, Python, or anything that uses BibTex as the underlying citation document, you will understand the struggle that sometimes your document cannot be rendered correctly because you might miss a comma, year, or author.
In applied research, we typically look at moderation effect of a moderator on the relationship between a predictor and an outcome variable. However, looking at the interaction term alone is very misleading.
To prevent future problems when using Java, you need to install Java to your machine correctly.
Download the correct version of Java from https://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp
Right-click the Java setup app to “Run as Admin”
After installing Java, go to R and let your machine know the right path to Java (Make sure you run R as Admin as well).
Due to a new movement in the tech industry, organizations (e.g., companies or universities) will not allow their members to have complete control of their machines (i.e., administrative privileges or running programs as administrators).
When you write your posts/blogs on blogdown, you might not want to always refer to the absolute path appeared on your website (because you might change your domain name and all hell breaks loose).
I struggle to find how to make my figures and images perfectly aligned in the center of my book. After looking around, I think I’ve found an adequate solution: