Another table making package for R

This looks very promising.

Google public data explorer

This looks interesting.

OpenBUGS has a new home

Looks like OpenBUGS now has a new home! And now the command line tools can actually run on my Linux box.

Microsoft' digital journal

If it is true, then it is much more appealing to Apple's Ipad.

Statistics books with code

I like all statistics books with computer codes, like this one.

GLMM revisted

A short while ago, I reported some discrepancies between the results produced by "lme4" and other R packages as well as Stata. Today I upgraded to the most recent version of "lme4a" and re-ran my model. The error of false convergence disappeared and the new results are very much in line with other packages.

I am glad that the problem eventually got sorted out.

For this version, the adaptive GH quadrature has not been implemented yet; so the only option to estimate a GLMM is laplace transformation.

AUCTeX

Glad to find out that AUCTeX has a new version out . Now the default PDF viewer has been changed from xpdf to evince.

Several screenshots

After some tweaking, I finally got Eclipse+StatET working the way I want. The first figure shows a running R session; the second figure shows the maximized running R session. The following shortcut keys are very helpful:

1. Ctrl + A: select what you to run;
2. Ctrl + R + R: run the selected program then go to the R console;
3. Ctrl + M: maximize the R console;
4. Ctril + T + 0: run Sweave of pgfSweave.

I like the way Eclipse organize the project and windows. 

Creating Beamer Handouts with Notes

This post provides some very helpful information. Unfortunately, the package is not designed to incorporate author's notes into the printed outline; instead, it is designed to print blank outline pages so the audience can jot down their own notes there.