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I’ve noticed that Statistics Canada seems to lag other national statistical agencies in making their data available in user friendly formats. There's that Can't-Do-Won't-Do spirit @StatCan_eng is famous for. Is there another statistics agency whose suggestion for obtaining annual GDP data - the most-used economic indicator - is to do it yourself? https://t.co/fl7DqpvTkl — Stephen Gordon (@stephenfgordon) January 15, 2019 In my own personal experience, it has been a difficult to get what was seemingly very basic information.

Now that August is upon us, academics around the world are sweating a little bit about getting back to the grind of teaching. I wanted to introduce a new R package I’ve developed that does precisely one thing: it creates a text file that contains the days and dates of the classes you’ll be teaching. Basically I had the idea for this package one late night when I was working on the syllabus for one of the first classes I ever taught.