Hi Folks,for a research project I needed to install RApache on my Mac OS X 10.6.4 (Snow Leopard) machine.It did take some time, a lot of beeping in the video documentary, a lot of recompiles…Here is the way to do it:1. Install Gnu Fortran on your MacYou need ... [Read more...]

A very nice resource which helped me a lot in kickstarting my Sweave efforts is Learning to Sweave in APA Style by clementi on scribd. This is a down to earth tutorial containing a lot of good tips! See for yourself:Learning to Sweave in APA Style ... [Read more...]

Today I did some experiments to learn how to combine R and LaTeX to create reproducible research reports. Here are my first results:First Demo Publish at Scribd or explore others: UNIX ... [Read more...]

I am running this blog as a kind of learning journal, so I can look up some of the solutions I come up when I run into problems on my way to R-mastery. I have some other R-related resources which may be of interest to other R-fellas.A much more ... [Read more...]

What really sold me to the idea of using Sweave and therefore (re)learning LaTeX was the idea of Reproducible Research. Charlie Geyer has put together some examples how to mix and match R and LaTeX with Sweave. Today's goal therefore is to run his examples and to see, what ... [Read more...]

After becoming frustrated using the StatET plugin for Eclipse on my Mac (sometimes the R console would start and sometimes not), I decided to use Textmate instead. Textmate allows you to install extra bundles which are plug-ins to add some new function... [Read more...]