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		<title>Syntax highlighting of roxygen documentation in TextMate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With roxygen now on github, the release of roxygen2 and Hadley&#8217;s might now behind the project I expect roxygen to gain even more momentum. R development in TextMate is great with the R bundle. Unfortunately the R bundle does not support highlighting of roxygen documentation by default. That was always a sticking point for me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cameron.bracken.bz/syntax-highlighting-of-roxygen-documentation-in-textmate</link>
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		<title>Synctex with Sweave/pgfSweave in TeXShop/TeXWorks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever been editing an .Rnw (Sweave) file and tried to sync a pdf with the source in TeXShop (or TeXWorks) and had it open the .tex file? This is because the synctex information (in the .synctex.gz file) is messed up. Both TeXShop and TeXWorks support synctex, that means that if everything is groovy, we should [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cameron.bracken.bz/synctex-with-sweavepgfsweave-in-texshoptexworks</link>
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		<title>Using tikzDevice with Sweave in R 2.13</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cameron.bracken.bz/using-tikzdevice-with-sweave-in-r-2-13</link>
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		<title>There is a new version of pgfSweave, and its awesome!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just uploaded version 1.2.1 of pgfSweave, and I think it is just great! The most notable new feature is the use of the TikZ externalization library list and make feature instead of the pgf \begingraphicnamed functionality. This has some important consequences: PGF 2.10 is required! This has been out for some months now but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cameron.bracken.bz/there-is-a-new-version-of-pgfsweave-and-its-awesome</link>
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		<title>pgfSweave 1.1.3 and Beyond</title>
		<description><![CDATA[pgfSweave 1.1.3 is now on CRAN. This release adds a few new features and fixes some bugs The pesky Rplots.pdf file is not generated anymore Brand new vignette by Hans Ekbrand on the use of pgfSweave with large data sets based on this site. New example on using caching by Yihui Xie Reusing code chunks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cameron.bracken.bz/pgfsweave-1-1-3-and-beyond</link>
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		<title>pgfSweave 1.1.0 now on CRAN!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The next release of pgfSweave is now on CRAN! It has been a while since I posted about pgfSweave and there have been some significant changes in the past couple of months. The main new features are: Automatic code highlighting via the highlight package. This can be turned off with the highlight option. &#8220;Tidying&#8221; of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cameron.bracken.bz/pgfsweave-1-1-0-now-on-cran</link>
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		<title>No Sidebar, Fullscreen, Super Minimal Gmail (for ninjas)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t need the build in chat. I created a css file that kills the sidebar and some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cameron.bracken.bz/no-sidebar-fullscreen-super-minimal-gmail-for-ninjas</link>
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		<title>Save time when compiling with microtype</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently there was a discussion on the MacOSX-TeX about compilation time with the microtype package. Under some circumstances (particularly when using latexsym), very large increases in compilation time were seen with microtype enabled. The full solution was given by Robert Schlicht, the maintainer of microtype. In the end it comes to adding these few lines [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cameron.bracken.bz/save-time-when-compiling-with-microtype</link>
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		<title>New stack exchange site for stats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://stats.stackexchange.com/]]></description>
		<link>http://cameron.bracken.bz/new-stack-exchange-site-for-stats</link>
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		<title>Automated way to check for PGF version</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#124; grep PGFVersion &#124; sed &#8216;s/PGFVersion=//&#8217; should display the version number. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cameron.bracken.bz/automated-way-to-check-for-pgf-version</link>
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		<title>pgfSweave version 1.0.5 released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Version 1.0.5 is now on CRAN. This version brings some bug fixes as well as two new features: Unlabeled code chunks are now allowed. The correct version of PGF is now checked for on startup. If the version is &#60; 2.00, the package will fail to load. http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/pgfSweave/index.html]]></description>
		<link>http://cameron.bracken.bz/pgfsweave-version-1-0-5-released</link>
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		<title>Local texmf tree on Mac OS X</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is mostly a reference for a me but also a good reminder for those using TeXLive on Mac OS X (a.k.a. MacTeX). From the document &#8220;What Is Installed.pdf&#8221; in /Applications/TeX: Incidentally, if you want to add files to TEX Live for one particular user, install them in a similar tree ~/Library/texmf where ~/Library is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cameron.bracken.bz/local-texmf-tree-on-mac-os-x</link>
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		<title>pgfSweave now on CRAN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At long last pgfSweave has finally made its way to CRAN. http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/pgfSweave/index.html The pgfSweave R package is about speed and style of graphics. For speed, the package provides capabilities for “caching” graphics generated with Sweave on top of the caching funcitonality of cacheSweave. For style the pgfSweave package facilitates the integration of R graphics with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cameron.bracken.bz/pgfsweave-now-on-cran</link>
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		<title>swfDevice: Help Wanted (Windows Build) and Outlook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[swfDevice is an R package I am developing that produces swf (flash) files natively from R. If anyone can step up and help get a working windows build up and running that would be great! I have little expertise with windows and I am just about stuck as what to do next. The task involved [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cameron.bracken.bz/swfdevice-help-wanted-windows-build-and-outlook</link>
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		<title>Using Git with R-Forge OR Adding an local Git branch to track an Subversion Repo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cameron.bracken.bz/git-with-r-forge</link>
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		<title>swfDevice is nearing completion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My new R package, swfDevice, is getting close to its first release. This package enables native R graphics output as swf (flash) files. It also as the ability to create animations with player controls. The main project page is here and the results of the test suite are here. Here are some samples: http://swfdevice.r-forge.r-project.org/swfDevice_test29.swf http://swfdevice.r-forge.r-project.org/swfDevice_test28.swf [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cameron.bracken.bz/swfdevice-is-nearing-completion</link>
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		<title>Critical programs (for me) now up and running on Snow Leopard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I updated to Snow Leopard the first day it came out and much to my ire, many of the programs and plugins that I use regularly were not compatible. Most of the issues had to do with 32/64 bit compatibility with system components. Fortunately the last became available recently (SafariStand). So the three plugins that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cameron.bracken.bz/critical-programs-for-me-now-up-and-running-on-snow-leopard</link>
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		<title>Trick Gmail into checking POP3 more often</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cameron.bracken.bz/trick-gmail-into-checking-pop3-more-often</link>
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		<title>Beta Verson of tikzDevice Released!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The tikzDevice package provides a new graphics device for R which enables direct output of graphics in a LaTeX-friendly way. The device output consists of files containing instructions for the TikZ graphics language and may be imported directly into LaTeX documents using the \input{} command. The beta version of tikzDevice is now available here. An [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cameron.bracken.bz/beta-verson-of-tikzdevice-released</link>
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		<title>Set Homepage to Top Sites in Safari 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the homepage input field put topsites://]]></description>
		<link>http://cameron.bracken.bz/set-homepage-to-top-sites-in-safari-4</link>
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