findUnix find is a powerful tool, but I always forget how to use it. I’ve recently found my favorite page ever on a wide variety of examples of use: I hope that this is as useful to you as it is to me! Also, FWIW I have recently found recoll to be a very powerful […]
After 4.5 years of struggling with OS X’s input source menu, I have finally figured out how to bind key combinations to selection of specific input sources (read: English, traditional Chinese through Pinyin, Japanese Hiragana, …). Here are the steps: Note the specific names of the input sources on the input menu you want to […]
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It can’t read your mind, but attachment Scanner Plugin for Mail.app is available here and will catch you some of the time 🙂 http://eaganj.free.fr/code/mail-plugin/
This is a persistent blog entry that I’ll keep editing to collect examples of how terrible WebCT software is. It also serves as a memory for myself (and perhaps an FAQ for other hapless faculty) as to how to work around WebCT’s innumerable gotchas. Though it is useful for a few things — such as […]
I love Sweave for writing LaTeX documents with embedded R code, and R’s cacheSweave package helps tremendously in avoiding repetition of time-consuming computations. (Thank you, Roger Peng, for writing cacheSweave!) One catch that is evident from a careful perusal of the cacheSweave vignette but which I keep forgetting is that cacheSweave will not cache R […]
One of the things I do to my Sweave output is to make scientific notation more transparent. I have a special R function for this which I use in my Sweave documents: myFormat <- function(…) { tmp <- format(…) return(sub(“e(.*)”,”\\\\\\\\times 10^{\\1}”,tmp)) } Note in particular the ridiculous number of backslashes required in the call to […]
Earlier I posted on combining natbib and apacite to approximate APA citation style. Well, I became aware that this approach doesn’t handle the rule that in-text citations should be “AuthorA and AuthorB (year)” whereas parenthetical citations “(AuthorA & AuthorB, year)”. I can’t figure out how to get this to work while using natbib. So I’ve […]
longnamesfirst option to work with natbib in LaTeXI publish in a number of journals that use the rules of APA style. I prefer to write my papers in LaTeX, and to use BibTeX together natbib to manage citations and bibliographic references. One of the rules of APA style says that the first citation of a bibliographic reference must be the “long” citation […]
People often ask me about the relative merits of R versus other statistics & mathematical programming environments (Matlab, SPSS, and so forth). While I love R and use it almost every day, I always insist that it has a(n unnecessarily) steep learning curve and can bite you in ways that are hard to recognize. I […]