Disk partition guide for Mint Debian

This post explains how to partition hard disk for Mint Debian.

New version of g++, a good reason to upgrade

My Ubuntu 10.04 runs fine on my workstation except for one thing ... its g++4.4.3 does not have the new c++ language feature which is used in software like CppBugs and its R binding called rcppbugs. The idea behind these two packages are very interesting, which gives me a good reason to upgrade to a new version of the OS (Debian, Mint, or Ubuntu).

Is Markdown/Pandoc any good?

Here is a post about LaTeX vs. Markdown. Looks like it is not easy to translate between the two systems automatically.

Beta regression examples

Here are some examples of beta regression model.

Cinnamon really works

Mint Linux's Cinnamon works rather well on my old laptop. It takes a bit longer to boot up to the desktop than Xfce, but once you get there, the user experience is rather good. In addition, it is very easy to use themes contributed by others (just put them into ~./theme folder).

Lcmm package example

Some latent class examples using the lcmm package.

JAGS resources

Very good resource list of using JAGS for Bayesian computing

New output processing package

The "rockchalk" package looks promising. I hope it can be as general as the "esttab" package for Stata.

A practical Bayesian book

Introduction to WinBUGS for Ecologists is a good practical Bayesian book. I find the sample code very useful. The simple example of forming predictions (p. 116) is straightforward and can be easily tailored to be used in different research situations.

Doing Bayesian Data Analysis: A Tutorial with R and BUGS is another useful practical Bayesian book. My copy just arrived today. Can't wait to play with some of the examples there.

From bbitex to biblatex

This post is helpuful to get started.

Integrating Eclipse and Rcpp

Interesting ideas.