I do a alot of my modelling on Rstudio hosted on EC2 instances. If you don’t use, I would highly recommend. A brilliant tool. Kudos to the Rstudio team. I have made a personal and professional pledge to obsessively use version control. I hope to show... [Read more...]

I do reports for clients with LyX and Sweave. It took me an extremely long time to get them working, but now that they’re working I can do more in an hour and thus charge more per hour. If you’re not familiar, here’s a rundown: LaTeX is ... [Read more...]

Using the Gutenberg Project’s free text of Don Quijote + Unix for Poets, here are the most used (non-short) words in Miguel de Cervantes’ famous work: 2167 Quijote 2145 Sancho 1331 porque 1053 respondió 1027 había  900 merced  813 vuestra  79... [Read more...]