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Make Safari behave as Firefox

October 2, 2009 | [email protected]

Some weeks ago I switched from Firefox to Safari. While Safari is -- in my experience -- quicker, better looking, and has Top Sites, I was also missing some functionality of firefox. To be more precise, I missed the 'search when start typing' option, a... [Read more...]

Labeled outliers in R boxplot

April 13, 2009 | [email protected]

Boxplots are a good way to get some insight in your data, and while R provides a fine ‘boxplot’ function, it doesn’t label the outliers in the graph. However, with a little code you can add labels yourself:The numbers plotted next to ... [Read more...]

Don’t group Figures in Word

February 1, 2009 | [email protected]

One of my ongoing annoyances with Microsoft Word is its inability to handle figures in a consistent way. The last quirk I discovered is the following: if you group a figure with a textbox -- something often done for creating captions -- the print quali... [Read more...]

InDesign: Export Selection to PDF

January 29, 2009 | [email protected]

I abuse Adobe InDesign sometimes for creating artwork, for instance to make gant diagrams. Usually, I do not want to export a complete page to pdf in those cases, but only the boxes and text that’s going to make up the illustration. Automaticatio... [Read more...]

Customizing R: startup script

January 19, 2009 | [email protected]

While R is certainly a great tool, some functions seem to be missing. Take for instance the standard error, for some reason there is no standard function included, while you would expect se(x) to work. Therefore I usually include a couple of functions,... [Read more...]

Analyzing Nike+ using R

January 14, 2009 | [email protected]

A couple of weeks ago, I finally took up running seriously. To keep myself motivated -- especially on dark winter nights -- I bought the Nike+ iPod sports kit. The sports kit was developed by a partnership of Nike and Apple, and consists of a tiny acce... [Read more...]

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