SciViews key binding

• Shift-F1 for contextual help on the word under the cursor in the editor
• Alt-Shift-F1 for help search selected word (make sure to look at the Web menu too)
• Ctrl-T to expand abbreviation (try typing func, then hit Ctrl-T in a file previously saved with a .R extension; a tooltip also appears when the sequence you type corresponds to a recognize abbreviation... and there are dozens of them already defined!)
• Ctrl-Return is the same as Return but also run the line of code in R
• Ctrl-Shift-R to run selection and/or code line by line
• Ctrl-Shift-A to run all code in the current document in R
• Ctrl-Shift-H to run a paragraph (consecutive lines of R code)
• Ctrl-Shift-M to run code between two bookmarks (define bookmarks first!)
• Ctrl-Shift-S to summarize the object whose name is under the cursor
• Ctrl-Shift-L to plot the object whose name is under the cursor
• F3 to search next occurence of the word under the cursor
• F4 to list R objects in memory (in .GlobalEnv)
• F7 to set the R working directory to the dir of the current edited file in Komodo

Causality

1. http://correlation-causality.blogspot.com/
2. http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/mlm/
   

My home page

Here is my new home page, hosted at CCPR:
http://www.ccpr.ucla.edu/faculty/Sgsong/home_shige_song.htm

Semi-automatic table making

Both Stata and R have nice table making facilities, but aML is still lacking this. Here is how I convert aML outputs into Word tables.

1. Estimate aML models;
2. Use "maktab" facilities to put different models into one output;
3. Copy and paste the results into a text file;
4. Use Excel to read in the file;
5. Copy and paste the Excel worksheet into Word;
6. Edit the Word manually from there.

When I have time, I may write a python script to automate this process; but for now, this seems to work reasonably well.

Another fun article about Linux virus

http://www.mylro.org/content/view/1088/53/

Camifox

Firefox is my browser of choice, and camifox is my favorite firefox theme: http://www.altmusictv.com/camifox/

Idiot-proof vs. idiot

I like this sentence: "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot- proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."

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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/dont_compare_gnu_linux_windows_or_macos_they_are_not_same_game

Komodo Edit is a real deal

Komodo Edit is a free open-source and cross-platform editor geared toward programmers. So far, it is the closest thing to the Windows-only UltraEdit or Vedit in the free Linux world. It is very configurable, and unlike Emacs, it does not require one to know Lisp.

I have been using it for several days, and just found myself doing all my texting editing, R, Stata, aML, Python, in it. Wow...

SciViews-K so far so good

SciViews-K integrates Komodo Edit, R, and SciViews to create a comfortable work environment for R users. I tested it in both Windows and Linux and it works well so far. Also, it works with JGR. The powerful editing capability of Komodo Edit and nice object brower of JGR should make a good combination.

http://www.sciviews.org/SciViews-K/index.html