Lighttable as a Julia IDE

Unconventional but very exciting.

The Chinese Century

The Chinese Century, by Joseph Stiglitz.

Why R is Hard to Learn

A long list of reasons here. Power and flexibility do come with a price, I guess. From a user perspective, a big part of learning R is about identifying a set of key packages that suite your needs best.

Useful Julia resources

This is a list of Julia resources for statistics.

Manjaro screenshot

My Manjaro desktop

Manjaro 0.8.11

The newly released Manjaro Linux is surprisingly stable and polished. After playing with it for a day (virtual machine installation), I think I am going to keep it. As it matures, it can be a viable competitor for a serious workstation OS.

Not the mention the fact that it is a rolling release so one always gets the latest and greatest of everything.

System76 has a facelift

System76, an excellent Linux computer hardware vendor, got a cool new web site. I like it!

R is now the #12 most popular programming language

According to the most recent TIOBE index, R is the #12 most popular programming language.

spread doesn't work with dplyr::grouped_df

This bug caused several hours of my time. Hope it can get fixed soon. Meanwhile adding an extra step by changing it to a data.frame works fine.