So maybe I’m a strange guy, but I think fork bombs are really funny. What’s a fork bomb? The basic premise is that you spawn a process that spawns a process that spawns a process…, ad infinitum. The most beautiful example of a fork bomb, and really one of the most beautiful lines of code 
So that mean old boss of mine is at it again. This morning I came in beaming about how many people had read my post How Much of R is Written in R (thanks by the way!). He then asks me about one little line in that post; the one about how if you looked 
My boss sent me an email (on my day off!) asking me just how much of R is written in the R language. This is very simple if you use R and a Unix-like system. It also gives me a good excuse to defend the title of this blog. It’s librestats, not projecteulerstats, afterall. So 
I was hoping to begin tinkering a bit with the multicore package in R beyond some extremely trivial examples. Thanks to a combination of R’s dumb quirkiness (for example, being worthless on loops), my poor planning, and general bad programming, my Saturday afternoon tinkering project is ultimately worthless in fulfilling that purpose. I was really 
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
