Editing- and running R scripts with Notepad++
Many people, including myself, might not like editing .r (source) files in R itself. Therefore I present you a very ingenious way of avoiding this. “NppToR provides R language syntax highlighting, code...
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Komodo Edit is a free, open source editor from dynamic language experts Whatever Your Language Komodo Edit supports PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl and Tcl, plus JavaScript, CSS, HTML and template languages...
View ArticleHow to disable UAC in Windows Vista
What is User Account Control? User Account Control (UAC) is a new security component in Windows Vista. UAC enables users to perform common tasks as non-administrators, called standard users in Windows...
View ArticleHow to change the spell-check language of a PowerPoint presentation
When preparing a presentation for my Bachelor thesis on “Confabulation in the Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome” I was really annoyed by Powerpoint. The presentation had to be written in Dutch, but for all...
View ArticleHow to overcome the unserialize error in cakephp 1.3.1 on Windows
Yesterday I did an upgrade from cake 1.30 to 1.31 on my Windows 2003 server. Unfortunately there was a problem with the cache files: Fortunately, finding an solution wasn’t to hard. A removed trim()...
View ArticleNo more IE6, please
A problem all web designers know is making a website work in Internet Explorer 6. IE 6 is not standards conforming. So even when you, as a designer, stick to the W3C rules there’s quite a chance your...
View ArticleVMware player (3.1) Windows 7 NAT not working
Last week I created a VMware instance of our online treatment application for developers to work on. Deploying that instance on VMware player for Linux wasn’t a problem, but when doing it on Windows 7...
View ArticleHow to determine if a R script is running on Windows/OS X or Linux
A while ago I was working on a piece of R code for the data analysis of my Master These project. While experiencing some encoding issues running the code on different platforms I decided to build in OS...
View ArticleHow to install RMySQL on R 2.14.0 for Windows XP
While installing RMySQL on OS X and Linux is really simple this is not the case for Windows. After trying several how to’s RMySQL still wasn’t working. Then I started experimenting my self… With...
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