Mint Debian

After about eight months, my Mint Debian has been broken beyond reparation. So I decided to wipe it out and do a fresh installation. This time I am not pointing directly to the Debian repository but to the Mint repository.

I like Mint Debian better than Mint main edition. I have come to the conclusion that as long as I am not directly pointing to the Debian repository (or at least not taking every single update everyday), the installation should be stable enough as my main workstation OS.

Free statistics text

OpenIntro.org provides a free statistical textbook, along with data sets and supplementary materials.

Ipsur.org is another one.

Simple rcpp examples

Here are some nice examples for Rcpp package.

Compiling Emacs, again

This post shows how to get Emacs compiled on Debian/Ubuntu platform.

BayesX

With the new "R2BayesX" package, now it looks like the BayesX software has been fully integrated into the R environment.

The R2BayesX provides a powerful general purpose package with simple and easy to learn syntax (compared to BUGS or ADMB). Now BayesX is under GPL, it will probably be embraced by the free software community wholeheartedly.

Nine reasons for C++ 11

Can be found in this post.

Java vs. COBOL and R vs. SAS

Here is an interesting comparison.

Multinomial logit model model with random effects

I just found out that the "mlogit" package can estimate multinomial logit model with random effects just like aML and GLLAMM.

Sex selection in historical China

Here is a short article (in Chinese).

R, Rstudio, and Markdown

Here is a helpful tutorial.

New Rstudio is pretty cool

The new version of Rstudio has option to use "knitr" instead of "sweave", which is really cool!