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qgraph version 1.1.0 and how to simply make a GUI using ‘rpanel’
Last week I have updated the ‘qgraph‘ package to version 1.1.0, available on CRAN now. Besides some internal changes (especially the self-loops have been substantially improved) the most important change is the addition of a GUI interface, which can be … Continue reading
NWO Research Talent
A more personal blog this time. I have been granted a research talent grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). In July I will start a three-year position as PhD-student at the University of Amsterdam, in which I will … Continue reading
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Music player in R (Linux)
Yesterday I found out about ‘mplayer’, which is a movie/music player for Unix that can be completely controlled from the terminal (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/). I started playing around with it while at the same time learning reference classes. The result, a music … Continue reading
10,000 R Questions on Stackoverflow
I was browsing stackoverflow when suddenly I noticed: 10 thousand questions tagged! I started using Stackoverflow almost exactly a year ago and remember that the counter was about 3 thousand at the time. It is a beautiful example of how fast the R community is … Continue reading
The ‘swst’ package to print statistical results in Sweave
When I was making the slides for a lecture on using Sweave to incorporate R and LaTeX I was unpleasantly surprised at how tedious it can be to extract statistical values and print them in proper LaTeX code. For example, consider a … Continue reading
Materials of the “LaTeX for Psychological Researchers” course
I have given a course on using LaTeX for psychological researchers. This course consisted of four lectures in which I discussed the following subjects: how to obtain a LaTeX distribution How to use LaTeX to write professional scientific reports How to use … Continue reading