Monthly Archives: November 2007

vi key bindings in R

Posted on November 28, 2007 by robfelty

I am working on learning R. For those that don’t know, R is a programming language and program a bit similar to Matlab, but is particularly designed for statistics. It is free and open source, and pretty fast and flexible. … Continue reading →

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Kubuntu Gutsy with Compiz

Posted on November 10, 2007 by robfelty

I upgraded my home computer from kubuntu Feisty to Gutsy yesterday. This was actually my second attempt. I tried once a couple weeks ago, but my satellite internet connection crapped out after downloading about 95% of the packages, and the … Continue reading →

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numbered footnotes on titlepage

Posted on November 10, 2007 by robfelty

The new lab I work in at Indiana University has an annual progress report, with its own stylesheet. There is a template available for Microsoft Word, but I much prefer LaTeX, so I am trying to write my own class … Continue reading →

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100 yootles bounty for solution to nested loop rounding error

Posted on November 5, 2007 by robfelty

I am working on doing some monte carlo simulations. I want to do a particular manipulation n times, but I want to constrain what I do based on three parameters, x, y, and z, which are probability distributions coded as … Continue reading →

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