Scivews-K got updated

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

The problem is, I cannot get it to work, on either Windows or Linux.

Some more Chinese materials...

http://www.mirrorbooks.com/news/?action-viewthread-tid-12896

A Chinese article...

http://www.rainbowplan.org/bbs/topic.php?topic=102997&select=&forum=1

Here are some Bugs code for joint modeling

http://www.biostat.umn.edu/~brad/software.html

Statistical computing matters

http://blogs.uit.tufts.edu/statisticalcomputingmatters/

InferenceR looks interesting

I obtained a free academic copy of the InferenceR, which is a R IDE for Windows. I has several interesting features such as a visual debugger. It is definitely worth some further exploration. Of course, the problem (and the only problem for now) is that it is Windows-only, cannot run it on Linux.

Lots of maps using R

http://r-spatial.sourceforge.net/gallery/#fig01.R

Very helpful!

Editing while running R within Emacs

Simply press "Ctrl + g" will return the control back to the user.

Running JAGS via R2jags

I finally figure out how to run WinBUGS examples in JAGS via R2jags. JAGS is preferred over WinBUGS for its cross-platform compatibility and performance (it was written in C++).