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Author Archives: pauljohn
Windows MikTeX experience Today/LyX install
The LyX-bundle 2.0.7 install was a thing of beauty. It “Simply Worked” for the most part. I was completely delighted. No stopping to ask the user about whether they want MikTeX, not mysteries. Over the years, I have installed LyX … Continue reading
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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
Debian Wheezy Install Notes
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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Legal characters in file names
My email signature has my opinion: Today’s Advice: File names include letters, numbers, periods, dashes, and underscores. NEVER \ / ! * & ^ $ or “. And no spaces. Spaces are bad, they make everything inconvenient. I’m not a … Continue reading
MacBook Pro: Hey, Jewel, Take a Walk on the Wild Side
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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RPM updates for RHEL6/Centos etc
Hello, Everybody This is an update notice/reminder. I’ve uploaded new Emacs and ESS for RedHat or Centos 6. And I also ask for bug reports, because of a question I will explain at the end. My goal: have reasonably up-to-date … Continue reading
Lyx Local Layout, markup for R code in documents
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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Build R RPMS on an older Fedora
I posted this in R-sig-fedora, or at least I thought I did. But the message did not appear. A user wanted an R-3.0.1 RPM for Fedora 17, which reached end of life. That wasn’t being provided by Fedora or Epel … Continue reading
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
## 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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