Writing a paper often comes along with a problem known as information fragmentation: figures, tables and the respective data sources related to the paper certainly are somewhere on your hard disk – but where? How did I name the file with the data-points again? And, the heck, which commands did I use to create that [...]
Tags:emacs english R science | Filed on July 8th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Today I stumbled over a very neat extension for the email client Mozilla Thunderbird. It allows you to include LaTeX style formulas into your email. Simply write down the formula enclosed in $$’s, e.g. $$\alpha = 5$$. Hitting a button will then convert all formulas into images and thereby allows you to send the email [...]
Tags:english science | Filed on April 22nd, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Are you frequently working with bibliographies, e.g. writing LaTeX documents with BibTeX? Finding the references you want to cite, and fetching/inserting the bibliographic data usually involves a number of clicks and database searches. There is an Emacs extension that may help you out here: Pub-Mode streamlines the whole process down to a couple of keystrokes.
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Tags:emacs english science | Filed on March 18th, 2009 | No Comments »
Scientific papers are mostly written in LaTeX, a markup language for typesetting. With LaTeX, a document is programmed rather than edited in a WYSIWYG-way. There is a great deal of specialized editors or editor modes (e.g. AucTeX) simplifying the creation of LaTeX documents. In many cases, however, you just want to quickly write down what’s [...]
Tags:emacs english science | Filed on February 26th, 2009 | 11 Comments »
I think many folks have been waiting for this. R is a statistical language widely established itself in the life-sciences. However, many lab people dislike it due to its bare commandline interface. This might change with a new program called RGG:
Self written R scripts are usually not longer than 100-150 lines. In most cases, there [...]
Tags:english R science | Filed on December 10th, 2008 | No Comments »