Chinees GIS resources

Here is a list of useful Chinese GIS resources:

1. CHGIS (download and CD)
2. China Dimensions
3. CloudMade (dowload)
4. GRASS-Wiki

A new skype for Linux

Skype 4.0 for Linux is out.

Scythe library

After 5 years, the Scythe library has a new version out.

Installed R packages

I did not realize I have such a long list of R packages install (ls /usr/local/lib/R/library >> list.txt):

abind	e1071	labeling	optimx	sabreR
ade4	Ecdat	LaF	optmatch	sandwich
ade4TkGUI	effects	LaplacesDemon	orthopolynom	scales
AICcmodavg	ellipse	lars	parallel	segmented
akima	emdbook	lattice	parser	sem
Amelia	Epi	lava	pcaPP	sfsmisc
anchors	etable	lavaan	permute	shapefiles
aod	etm	leaps	pgfSweave	simecol
ape	evaluate	lessR	pixmap	SiZer
apsrtable	expm	lme4	pkgmaker	sna
arm	ff	lmtest	plm	snow
base	fields	locfit	plyr	snowfall
bayesDem	filehash	lpSolve	polynom	sos
bayesLife	flexmix	magic	popbio	sp
bayesm	FME	mapdata	popdemo	spacetime
bayesPop	foreach	mapproj	primer	spam
bayesTFR	forecast	maps	prodlim	SparseM
BayesX	foreign	maptools	proto	spatial
BayesXsrc	formatR	markdown	pscl	SpatialEpi
bbmle	Formula	MASS	psych	spatstat
bdsmatrix	forward	Matching	qgraph	spBayes
bibtex	fracdiff	MatchIt	quadprog	spdep
biganalytics	gam	Matrix	quantreg	spgwr
biglm	gamlss	matrixcalc	R2BayesX	sphet
bigmemory	gamlss.data	MatrixModels	R2HTML	splancs
bigtabulate	gamlss.dist	maxLik	R2jags	splines
BiocGenerics	gclus	MBA	R2WinBUGS	splm
BiocInstaller	gdata	MBESS	RandomFields	stashR
bit	gee	mclust	randomForest	statmod
bitops	geepack	MCMCglmm	RANN	stats
boot	geoR	MCMCpack	raster	stats4
brew	ggplot2	McSpatial	RColorBrewer	stringr
cacheSweave	gof	mediation	Rcpp	SuppDists
cairoDevice	gpclib	memisc	RcppArmadillo	survey
car	gplots	memoise	rcppbugs	survival
caTools	graph	MEMSS	RcppDE	svUnit
cem	graphics	methods	RcppEigen	systemfit
chron	grDevices	mets	RCurl	tables
class	grid	mgcv	registry	tabplot
classInt	gstat	minpack.lm	reldist	tcltk
cluster	gsubfn	minqa	reshape	tensorA
coda	gtools	miscTools	reshape2	testthat
codetools	gWidgets	mitools	rgam	tikzDevice
colorspace	gWidgetsRGtk2	mixAK	rgdal	timereg
combinat	hexbin	mixtools	rgenoud	tools
compiler	highlight	mlbench	rgeos	triangle
corpcor	Hmisc	mlmRev	rgl	truncnorm
cumSeg	ibdreg	mlogit	RGtk2	tseries
datasets	igraph	mnormt	rj	TTR
data.table	igraph0	modeltools	rjags	ucminf
DBI	inline	MPV	rJava	utils
DCluster	int64	mstate	rj.gd	vcd
deldir	iplots	multcomp	Rmixmod	vegan
DEoptim	IPSUR	MuMIn	rms	VGAM
depmixS4	ipw	munsell	robustbase	visreg
deSolve	iterators	mvtnorm	rockchalk	waveslim
devtools	JavaGD	ncdf	RODBC	WhatIf
dichromat	JGR	nlme	rootSolve	XLConnect
digest	KernSmooth	nnet	rpart	XLConnectJars
diptest	knitcitations	npmlreg	rrcov	XML
doBy	knitr	numDeriv	RSiteSearch	xtable
doRNG			Rsolnp	xts
DPpackage			RSQLite	Zelig
			RUnit	zic
			Rz	zoo

Natural selection is still with us

This looks very interesting. I cannot wait to get hold of the paper.

mintBox

Looks very nice, but I have not figured out what it can do to help with my current computing tasks.

Drawing a map

This post explains how to draw a China map using ggplot2 and online data sources. The blog is generally interesting.

This one is based on OpenStreetMap. Very helpful.