So this is an interesting gotcha in R (or at least I thought so). Suppose you have an object of class foo, where the “class” here is a class in the S3 sense. So you create a print method for the foo class, by writing a function print.foo. You create an object y, that has class foo. You pass that object to the print method. Read more »
I taught at EITM@WUSTL this past week. Read more »
So here is something I’ve been meaning to gripe about for a while.
I’d like to have Sweave as the (default?) TeX command option when editing Rnw files. There is a little bit of material on this on the web: a suggestion that you augment the TeX-command-list with a Rnw-mode-hook. This proposed solution doesn’t seem to work for me very well: I never see the Sweave menu items in the command menu when editing a Rnw file.
So I created my own addition to the TeX-command-list: Read more »
Some recent traffic on R-SIG-Mac. Its not really a Mac problem, but worth a thought.
MCMC has the potential to violate one of the first objectives of statistics, and that is to take a big pile of numbers and make a smaller pile of numbers. Since you can try to run/save as many MCMC iterations as your computer can store (or can’t store, see below), you can easily wind up with a bigger pile of numbers than you started with. Hence, some wisdom needs to come into play. To wit: Read more »
Oh. Mi. God. The full horror is on You Tube. Herr Gruber’s daringfireball alerted me to this travesty.
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