JAGS was developed to help those non-Window users to be able to use BUGS. However, I found it is very hard to install JAGS and its R package-rjags. Here is my note on how to install JAGS and rjags in Fedora 10. The note here should work for all Linu...

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As a R user, I like to use RWinEdt as the text editor. I write code on it and send code to R by clicking buttons.I had a spare laptop from Jennifer. It does not have a working screen. I use that to test all kinds of software and OS systems. Recentl...

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In the plot environment, the "pch" parameter decides the symbol of your output. There are about 130 symbols hard coded and passed into "pch."However, there are still some symbols that are not in these 130 pch's. For instance, there is no checkmark. To plot checkmark or other symbols, we can use symbol() in the expression()...

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Plotting math in R can be acheived using the expression(). To know detailed usage, in R console,demo(plotmath)But expression() is not flexible when you want to plot math symbols and parameters altogether. In this case, we use bquote() which is actually a wraper for substitute() and quote(). It has the ability to do paste() and expression() altogether. Here...

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TIOBE has released the newest ranking for the most popular programming language here. Java remains the top popular programming language. C and C++ follow with Java. I dont' see R in this ranking. Maybe it doesn't belong to this group! Maybe I should ...

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