jake

Jan
31st

Tue

tip: latex

a number of useful listings settings for inline code snippets http://bit.ly/Ai4fnu

tips latex

Jan
19th

Thu

use geom_line(aes(group=1)) to connect x-axis factors via a line with ggplot2 (h/t @hadleywickham)

tips rstats

Jan
18th

Wed

a handy syntax reference for specifying statistical models in R: http://bit.ly/yza8SK

tips rstats

hide part of a legend in ggplot2 with legend=F in the scale, e.g. scale_size(legend=F)

tips rstats

(ab)use ggplot2 to connect x-axis factors via a line with geom_line(aes(x=as.integer(x), y=…))

tips rstats

Oct
20th

Thu

use jot as an alternative to seq for generating sequential and random numbers http://macw.us/pdfadN

tips macosx

Sep
20th

Tue

check if a variable is numeric in awk func isnum(x) {return x==x+0} http://bit.ly/pTDTXW

tips awk

Aug
18th

Thu

swap left alt and command keys with setxkbmap -option altwin:swap_lalt_lwin http://bit.ly/pNSwYN

tips linux

Aug
5th

Fri

current date & time w/ boost::posix_time: to_extended_iso_string(second_clock::local_time()); http://bit.ly/qPTclz

tips c++

Jul
27th

Wed

use disown to detach a process from a shell http://bit.ly/ojUN7u (h/t @mihasya)

tips shell