Monthly Archives: March 2012

sshfs: where were you all along :)

Did you know that you could mount a remote directory (any directory accessible to you) through an ssh command? I was reading 16 ultimate ssh hacks by Carla Schroder and found out this little piece of heaven. The command is sshfs. You use … Continue reading

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Rscript, where were you all along?

One of the things that I did not like about using R was that there was not “easy” way of calling it in a command sort of way. The test part of my R workflow consisted in going into the … Continue reading

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Systematic Literature Review (SLR)

This is a very interesting way of gathering relative information for ones research. I like it because it is repeatable and somewhat measurable. I read a paper by Paolo Tell that described the process quite nicely :). Here is the … Continue reading

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An example of a good plot picture.

This post is meant to show how a “good” plot picture looks like. I did the tests in my back yard. Things to note are: All the markers are completely visible. The chessboard marker is completely visible when all the … Continue reading

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R: Index of an interval of a number in a vector

Try findInterval :). Let me try to explain what I mean with this title. I have a vector of numbers. The numbers represent bin limits. For example c(1,2,3) is a vector that represents 2 bins. The first is [1,2) and … Continue reading

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