R 2.13 introduces an option to specify a custom graphics device in an Sweave code chunk. This is really cool and allows you to use tikzDevice output like pgfSweave does. In an pinch, say when you dont have access to any non-core packages, you can use tikzDevice output with the regular Sweave driver (RweaveLatex) more [...]
Real Gmail Ninjas dont want all that sidebar clicky junk on their screens. Because of keyboard shortcuts, you can do nearly everything in Gmail with the keyboard and the sidebar becomes irrelevant. Also I use Adium, so I don’t need the build in chat. I created a css file that kills the sidebar and some [...]
This is one way to check for the version of PGF that is installed in an automated way. First create a tex file with the following contents: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \batchmode \makeatletter \typeout{PGFVersion=\pgfversion} \@@end Say you named it test-pgf-version.tex. Then: pdflatex test-pgf-version.tex cat test-pgf-verson.log | grep PGFVersion | sed ‘s/PGFVersion=//’ should display the version number. I [...]
These instructions were originally from instructions from my friend Charlie. I really like to use Github but R-Forge has alot of nice features for package development, so why not get the best of both worlds. Say you have a git repo (with an R package or something else) but want to create a local brach [...]
I finally got sick of gmail only checking my POP3 account every hour or so, so I resolved to fix it. If you google this, there are numerous solutions, I thought I would share my experience. I have access to a web/mail server so I used that. (1) Log on to the server. (2) Create [...]
Many high quality (e.g. 1080p) movies take significant system resources to play. A GUI wrapper application only adds an extra middle man. The command line version of mplayer is very fast and has served me well many times. I am a huge fan of the command line but sometimes I just want to double click [...]