Custom build system for compiling rmarkdown files in plantuml in sublime-text 3
January 1, 2015
opensource & plaintext & ubuntu & reproducibleResearch
Here is my custom build system for compiling markdown files including plantuml chunks in sublime-text 3 on Linux. Obviously you will have to replace
Custom build system for compiling rmarkdown files in sublime-text 3
November 9, 2014
reproducibleResearch & ubuntu & opensource
Here is my custom build system for compiling rmarkdown files in sublime-text 3 on Linux. Obviously you will have to replace the /home/steve parts
Your zotero filesystem
October 3, 2014
reproducibleResearch & opensource & zotero
Zotero is a really great tool for organising your scientific and professional documents and their citations, and keeping documents and citations
Extract annotations and highlighted passages from PDF files
October 3, 2014
reproducibleResearch & opensource & zotero
Every student, researcher and scientist has to read and make notes and highlight or scribble on texts. In long-gone days I spent ages working on Uni
From wordpress to pelican
September 10, 2014
reproducibleResearch & opensource
Wordpress is a great blogging engine. But I spend almost all my time with plaintext files in markdown. Whatever I am working on, from my CV to
GANTT software
June 10, 2014
opensource & tech & ubuntu & dataviz
I quite often get asked (and ask myself) what is the best GANTT software for basic use. Recently we have been comparing a few solutions so here are
Auto-send pdfs from zotero to your kindle and convert for easy reading
June 12, 2012
lyx & opensource & ubuntu & zotero
Lately I have been using my Kindle Touch for reading work-related pdfs in peace and quiet at home. So I faced three problems: most scientific pdfs
Using lyx to automate production of project proposals, expressions of interest, etc
November 29, 2011
opensource & ubuntu
At proMENTE social research we use lyx (www.lyx.org) and zotero (www.zotero.org) to produce our project proposals, expressions of interest, etc. I
Zotero standalone, lyz, lyx, bibtex integration
October 12, 2011
lyx & opensource & ubuntu & zotero
Just to report that lyz (formerly known as lytero) is still working for me with zotero standalone on ubuntu 11.10. Lyz is a great tool to integrate
Unlimited conditional formats in openoffice spreadsheet
September 20, 2010
tech & opensource & dataviz
It’s annoying that openoffice, and I believe Excel too, limits you to just three formats which can be applied through conditional formatting. For
Problems with R
September 20, 2010
opensource & reproducibleResearch
Struggling for two whole days to do some not-terribly-advanced repeated-measures analysis of variance in R. Probably my worst experience with R so
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