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Instead of a longish introduction

On this site you will find some of my tricks and hacks for different kinds of software. Here is an incomplete list of tools I use regularly and therefore adapt or hack out of necessity Microsoft Excel...

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R and Emacs with org mode

Who should read this document I recently learned about org mode for Emacs. Among other things, it allows to mix text and R source code similar to SWeave, but the markup for text is very simple. To get...

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OLPC ≈ Sugar on a Stick ≈ SoaS on Asus Eee PC R11CX

This is an update modifying the original blog entry. Today, I tried to create a bootable SD Card with SoaS for an Asus Eee PC. Ultimately, I was successful. The sugarlabs Wiki has installation...

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Netlogo, the R extension, and Mountain Lion

The R extension for Netlogo (available fromneeds sone environment variables to point to R and JRI (an R tool for connecting R and Java). Until Lion, a plist file ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist could be...

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Emacs and spell on a Mac

I had some trouble installing aspell in Emacs on my Mac, so here is what I did to make it work. I installed Emacs 24.4 from the Emacs for OS X web site, and I installed cocoAspell from its web site....

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code{white-space: pre;} pre:not([class]) { background-color: white; } .main-container { max-width: 940px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; } code { color: inherit; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0,...

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RStudio on RaspberryPi 3

I have been able to build RStudio server on my RaspberryPi 3. One change was crucial: I added a 16GB swap file on an external disk to my system (mounting the external drive and using dphys-swapfile –...

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R package dependencies

code{white-space: pre;} pre:not([class]) { background-color: white; } h1 { font-size: 34px; } h1.title { font-size: 38px; } h2 { font-size: 30px; } h3 { font-size: 24px; } h4 { font-size: 18px; } h5 {...

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R and Java on MacOS

After many failed attempts I have been able to get rJava and other R packages needing Java running on my Mac. I have MacOS Mojave 10.14.6. I had lots of different Java version from Oracle on my machine...

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