Because of Andrew Gelman’s strong, repeated recommendations, I’ve been reading “Forecasting Presidential Elections” by Steven J. Rosenstone for the last two days. It’s quite a remarkable book and complex enough that I’m sure I’ll return t... [Read more...]

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Today I did some experiments to learn how to combine R and LaTeX to create reproducible research reports. Here are my first results:First Demo Publish at Scribd or explore others: UNIX ... [Read more...]

As I had blogged a while back, multiseat use broke following the normal upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10. I had also suggested a fix but it turns out that the fix didn't work. So we had a clear regression -- multiseat use of a single Ubuntu workstation with two screens, two keyboards ... [Read more...]

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 ... [Read more...]

The following went out to the R-announce and R-SIG-Finance mailing lists a few days ago. The conference already has a very strong lineup of invited speakers, and we are now asking R / Finance users from both academia and industry to submit suitable one-page abstracts: Call for Papers The Finance Department ... [Read more...]