Useful information

http://www.kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2004/12/11/indispensible-applications/

Work with the cachSweave package

This blog explains how to work with the R package "cacheSweave" to save time by forgo some of the time consuming computations while using Sweave:

• http://ggorjan.blogspot.com/2008/11/sweavesh-plays-with-cachesweave.html
• http://ggorjan.blogspot.com/2009/04/sweavesh-update.html
  

Microsoft contributed code to GPL

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3403

Sweave and Xtable

• http://cameron.bracken.bz/sweave-xtable-booktabs
• http://www.econsteve.com/?p=188
  

Endnote and Openoffice

The new Endnote (X3) supports Openoffice. This is a positive development.

Graph with two axes

In R: http://robjhyndman.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=233:r-graph-with-two-y-axes&catid=32:mbr&Itemid=103

In Stata: http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/library/GraphExamples/code/twobar.htm

Also, R package "plotrix" has a function "twoord.plot" designed specifically for this.

New releases

While waiting for R 2.9.1, I saw the release notes for Stata 11.

Google scholar search

This google scholar search of "shared latent variable random effects" yields some interesting results.

SabreR

SabreR consists three components: a Sabre binary, a R wrapper that communicate with the binary file (input and output), and a short R function to print the output.

The developer of SabreR wrote the wrapper in the somewhat unconventional way, which makes table making and simulation difficult.