I love good typography, even more so as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint have debased our standards. When I see a really fine piece of technical typesetting, it’s almost always done using TeX and friends. Beautiful LaTeX documents are easy to … Continue reading → [Read more...]

As the term has progressed, my LSM2241 lectures are getting more consistent. I’m aiming to use 45 slides for what is officially a two hour lecture, although in reality it lasts about 90 minutes. We take a break at about 50 … Continue reading → [Read more...]

There’s been a lot of justifiable excitement in the R community about Yihui Xie’s great work, and most recently the incorporation of his knitr package into the RStudio software. Knitr is seen, justifiably, as a worthy successor to SWeave for … Continue reading → [Read more...]