Short version: if RStudio on Windows 7 crashes when viewing vignettes in HTML format, it may be because those packages specify knitr::rmarkdown as the vignette engine, instead of knitr::knitr and you’re using rmarkdown v1.
Longer version with details – read on.
update: looks like this issue relates to the installed version of rmarkdown (1.3 in my case) – see here for details.
Stephen tweets:
A “quilt plot”
If you looked at that and thought “Hey, that’s a heat map!”, you are correct. That is a heat map. Let’s be quite clear about that. It’s a heat map.
So, how do the authors justify publishing a method for drawing heat maps and then calling them “quilt plots”?
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Here’s a tip. When you write an article about your software, the title of which indicates that open-source is important:
but you then:
Don’t be surprised when no-one uses your software.
Or is the publication more important to you than the product?
Integrated development environments (IDEs) are software development tools, providing an interface that enables you to write, debug, run and view the output of your code.
Whether you need an IDE or find them useful depends very much on your own preferences and style of working. In my own case for example, I’ve tried both Eclipse and NetBeans, but I find them bloated and rather “overkill”. On the other hand, my LaTeX productivity shot up when I started to use Kile.
Most of my coding involves either Ruby or R, written using Emacs. For Ruby (including Rails), I use a bundled set of plugins named my_emacs_for_rails, which includes the Emacs Code Browser (ECB). For R, I occasionally use Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS), but I’m just as likely to run code from a terminal or use the R console.
RStudio, released yesterday, is a new open-source IDE for R. It’s getting a lot of attention at R-bloggers and it’s easy to see why: this is open-source software development done right.
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What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate 