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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2018/10/12#github_oct2017_oct2018"> Thinking inside the box </a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2014/10/12#github_oct2013_oct2014" target="_blank">Four years ago</a> I referenced the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://lifehacker.com/281626/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-secret" target="_blank">Seinfeld Streak</a> used in an <a rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2013/02/03/" target="_blank">earlier post</a> of regular updates to to the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://gallery.rcpp.org/" target="_blank">Rcpp Gallery</a>:</p>
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<p>This is sometimes called Jerry Seinfeld’s secret to productivity: Just keep at it. <em>Don’t break the streak</em>.</p>
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<p>and then showed the first chart of <em>GitHub streaking</em></p>
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<img alt="github activity october 2013 to october 2014" src="https://i1.wp.com/dirk.eddelbuettel.com/images/github_oct2013_oct2014.png?w=456" data-recalc-dims="1"><figcaption>github activity october 2013 to october 2014</figcaption></figure>
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<p>And three year ago a first follow-up appeared in <a rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2015/10/12#github_oct2014_oct2015" target="_blank">this post</a>:</p>
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<img alt="github activity october 2014 to october 2015" src="https://i0.wp.com/dirk.eddelbuettel.com/images/github_oct2014_oct2015.png?w=456" data-recalc-dims="1"><figcaption>github activity october 2014 to october 2015</figcaption></figure>
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<p>And two years ago we had a <a rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2016/10/12#github_oct2015_oct2016" target="_blank">followup</a></p>
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<img alt="github activity october 2015 to october 2016" src="https://i0.wp.com/dirk.eddelbuettel.com/images/github_oct2015_oct2016.png?w=456" data-recalc-dims="1"><figcaption>github activity october 2015 to october 2016</figcaption></figure>
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<p>And last year we <a rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2017/10/12#github_oct2016_oct2017" target="_blank">another one</a></p>
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<img alt="github activity october 2016 to october 2017" src="https://i2.wp.com/dirk.eddelbuettel.com/images/github_oct2016_oct2017.png?w=456" data-recalc-dims="1"><figcaption>github activity october 2016 to october 2017</figcaption></figure>
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<p>As today is October 12, here is the newest one from 2017 to 2018:</p>
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<img alt="github activity october 2017 to october 2018" src="https://i0.wp.com/dirk.eddelbuettel.com/images/github_oct2017_oct2018.png?w=456" data-recalc-dims="1"><figcaption>github activity october 2017 to october 2018</figcaption></figure>
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<p>Again, special thanks go to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://naramsim.github.io/" target="_blank">Alessandro Pezzè</a> for the Chrome add-on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/Naramsim/GithubOriginalStreak" target="_blank">GithubOriginalStreak</a>.</p>
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This post by <a rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/" target="_blank">Dirk Eddelbuettel</a> originated on his <a rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/" target="_blank">Thinking inside the box</a> blog. Please report excessive re-aggregation in third-party for-profit settings.</p>
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