Posts Tagged ‘ linux ’

email yourself when a script or a job is done

December 15, 2009
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i usually run long simulations in R on a remote server. i’ve read an article on linux journal about emailing yourself after something happens…i forgot. since my jobs are long, and i usually have to run multiple jobs sequentially, it’d be nice to look at my results immediately when they’re gone. good thing *nix based

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Sweave-Lyx from terminal on Mac

November 12, 2009
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Sweave-Lyx from terminal on Mac

Mark Heckmann writes:In your paper "Using Sweave with Lyx" (great work bty) you pointed out that one can see the sweave error code when processing when starting lyx from the terminal. I just changed from Windows to Mac so that's new for me. Could you s...

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Top Five Open Source Projects of 2009

November 5, 2009
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Every year, I single out what I think are the Top Five open source projects. This year, there's only one hold-over from previous years, and it's likely that I'm just going to give it a Lifetime Achievement Award and pick five others next year. 5. NetBe...

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What’s Happening, Man?

October 14, 2009
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topsyWidgetPreload({ "url": "http%3A%2F%2Fborasky-research.net%2F2009%2F10%2F14%2Fwhats-happening-man%2F", "style": "big", "title": "What's Happening, Man?" }); There is quite a bit of activity on the AlgoCompSynth front. As you may know, I’m a SUSE Studio subscriber, and I’m building openSUSE 11.1-based appliances there. One of them is dedicated to AlgoCompSynth, and I expect to make a release in the very near future,

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Compiling and Cross-compiling R packages for Windows (win32)

September 3, 2009
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so recently i’m learning how to compile and cross-compile R packages from source for windows machines, which means i have to create windows binaries. the first option is to build on a windows system, and the 2nd is to cross-build on an intel-based linux or mac system. i will outline my experience. Send it off

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Run a remote R session in emacs: emacs + ESS + R + ssh

June 1, 2009
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I don’t know how, but somehow, i stumbled on how to do this. I’ve always used emacs with ESS to run R, since spring 2006 (did it on windows, switched to linux, for years, and most recently, on my macbook). I liked this because i get the same usual interface across ALL platforms (well, maybe

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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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Install JAGS and rjags in Fedora

January 23, 2009
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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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Install JAGS and rjags in Fedora

January 23, 2009
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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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Call C from R and R from C

November 17, 2008
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Call C from R and R from C

Several years ago, while a research associate at the University of Chicago, I had the privilege of sitting in on a course taught by Peter Rossi: Bayesian Applications in Marketing and MicroEconometrics. This course -- one I recommend to anyone at U Ch...

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