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Ever run $ ls -la and suffer with a white background and white letters that look invisible? Suffer no more. Ever have a dark terminal and directory names are dark blue or black? Stop gauging your eyes out. Step 1. … Continue reading →

Posted on 2013/12/30 by pauljohn | 2 Comments

Debian Wheezy Install Notes

Posted on 2013/11/17 by pauljohn

Install from netinst disk. Seems OK, but can’t start session using old home directory because that assumed I had compiz available. And XFCE4. Thus I have to do some unusual steps to get them, most users won’t need to bother … Continue reading →

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MacBook Pro: Hey, Jewel, Take a Walk on the Wild Side

Posted on 2013/10/28 by pauljohn

I’ve never used a Macintosh. I did not appreciate the original Macintosh at all. I felt they were charging a price premium for a system that was not open to hardware or software from other vendors. I chose MS DOS … Continue reading →

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Lyx Local Layout, markup for R code in documents

Posted on 2013/09/19 by pauljohn

While preparing book manuscript, I found the need to mark code of various styles, R functions, variables, and I needed this to be flexible and fixable later when publisher changed mind on style. Here’s the secret recipe. In Lyx Document … Continue reading →

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Posted on 2013/08/10 by pauljohn

Nobody has a cuter dog that the Honey dog, who has just endured a second leg surgery.

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R Summer Camp 2013 Journal

Posted on 2013/06/03 by pauljohn

## Summer Camp Blog 2013 ## Day 1 I forgot to mention: The new copy of the “rockchalk” package is on our testing repository install.packages(“rockchalk”, repos = “http://rweb.quant.ku.edu/kran”, type = “source”) Version 1.7.90 is in “feature freeze” now, bug fixes … Continue reading →

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Emacs settings for Windows and the Rterm problem

Posted on 2013/02/18 by pauljohn

Good page: http://cbio.ensmp.fr/~thocking/primer.html Shows how to use .Rprofile and .emacs file. This is the old fashioned way, (setq inferior-R-program-name “/path/to/R”);; I need to return and get this right, once and for all. So I started this page as a reminder … Continue reading →

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Installing LyX 2.0.5 in Windows, step by step

Posted on 2013/02/11 by pauljohn

## Paul E. Johnson <pauljohn at ku.edu> ## 2013-02-09 ## Step by step LyX install Notes ## Test operating system is Windows-7 32 bit virtual machine. ## User making install is NOT a “limited” account. (Recall that ## the limited … Continue reading →

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Faster R: Things to not forget

Posted on 2012/12/09 by pauljohn

We ask all the time, how to make R go faster, and there are a few basic tips and clear working examples, but except for that, it is confusing. We just have to test. It is not unique to R. … Continue reading →

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tar and ssh together to backup onto remote machine

Posted on 2012/09/28 by pauljohn

On my laptop, I have working installs of some programs and I want to back them up as tar.gz files on a server that I can access via ssh. The disk on the server is formatted in windows NTFS. It … Continue reading →

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