Jetsam 4: polypods, portrait of cables
Category: photos (Page 15 of 17)
Jetsam 2: bad apples
Jetsam 1: full moon country side
Remembering server installation details
I’ve been moving part of my work to university servers, where I’m just one more peasant user with little privileges. In exchange, I can access the jobs from anywhere and I can access multiple processors if needed. Given that I have a sieve-like memory, where configuration details quickly disappear through many small holes, I’m documenting the little steps needed to move my work environment there.
The server provides a default R installation but none of the additional packages I often install are available (most people accessing the servers don’t use R). I could contact the administrator to get them installed, but I’ve opted for installing them under my user space. For that I followed the instructions presented here, which in summary require adding the name of the default folder (/hpc/home/luis/rpackages) for the local library of packages to my .bashrc file:
Continue reading
Mid-September flotsam
This is one of those times of the year: struggling to keep the head above the water, roughly one month before the last lecture of the semester. On top trying to squeeze trips, meetings and presentations in between while dealing with man flu.
- Creating a list of introductory-level Bayesian blogs. Some suggestions in the comments: Probably Overthinking It, Maximum Entropy & Deus Dia Pente.
- Materials for Statistical Modelling in Stata. HT: Christophe Lalanne.
- That damned R-squared! understanding through simulation by Arthur Charpentier.
- Strange headlines: ‘Livestock Improvement Corporation offers semen credit in wake of ‘hairy calves’ genetic defect’. HT: Mem Sommerville.
- Attention Deficit Disorder sufferers have moved, at least for a while, from talking about Julia to talking about Stan.
- I bought a copy of Wes McKinney’s Python for Data Analysis. Worth the price.