I wanted to write a quick post about a useful linux tool for using R. I sometimes have long running R sessions for model training. One solution that I have alluded to is to call your script with Rscript. The nohup command in linux with push this to the... [Read more...]

Sed is my friend to change fixed-width text files (e.g., from an R screen output) to a comma delimited file using sed 's/ */,/g' file1 __file2.csv Note the two spaces between s/ and */. [Read more...]

Dear list, I brought up this issue before but a good solution never arised: being able to use screen on a remote server (so if something goes wrong on my side I can always resume that R session) inside of emacs in order to utilize ESS. The closest thing I ... [Read more...]