Posts Tagged ‘ Data ’

Make Shift-Enter do a lot in ESS

October 12, 2009
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If you use Emacs and ESS to run R, then here’s a nice tweak I found on the Emacs Wiki. The following bit of elisp goes in your .emacs file (or equivalent). Starting with an R file in the buffer, hitting shift-enter vertically splits the window and starts R in the right-side buffer. If R

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How to Import MS Excel Data into R

September 26, 2009
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How to Import MS Excel Data into R

s Sir Francis Bacon said, “Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.” And Windows stupid. He should have added the last sentence if he were a Windows user in this age. 1. Avoid Using M$ Excel A lot of R users often ask this question:

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Rails, Scalability and Sexism

April 29, 2009
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It’s been a long time since I posted here, for a number of reasons: Change of focus from Ruby programming to Linux capacity planning, especially in the realm of I/O subsystems. You’ll find more about that at http://linuxcapacityplanning.com...

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opentick is no more

April 17, 2009
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opentick is no more

After a year of "we plan to accept new subscribers shortly", opentick has shut its doors completely. As of March 20th, the opentick service is no longer available.From opentick.com:3/16/2009To opentick subscribers, friends, supporters, contributors an...

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