SQL server for population frequencies from 1000 genomes
Note: 2018 June 26 Server down right now, investigating. Note: August 16, 2017 server IP changed to 67.207.92.10. Original post We need dplyr for this: library(dplyr) First, use the anon…
ggplot2 functions in kirkegaard package
http://rpubs.com/EmilOWK/215493
How to add names to choroplethr ggplot2 maps
A brief tutorial on how to add names to choroplethr maps in R.
Cognitive ability and political preferences in Denmark: knitr edition
http://rpubs.com/EmilOWK/208757 Analysis of the data collected so far, presented side by side with R code. It will be expanded into a proper paper and submitted to OQSPS soonish. Soonish here…
Python: Removing empty lists from mixed nested lists
Suppose you have some function that returns possibly nested lists with empty lists inside. Worse, they may have lists with lists with an empty list inside. And suppose you want…
Installing the gsl package for R on Linux Mint 18
Today I was trying to install the MBESS package. One of its dependencies is the gsl package. However, trying to install that package gave the following error: cp: cannot stat…
Linux Mint stuck in fallback mode?
I have the problem that many people have: Virtualbox refuses to increase the so-called dynamic disk. The result is that at some point one runs out of space and one…
Collapsible list in HTML/CSS/JS
I am working on a website where we need to present a large amount of information in a hierarchical list. The list will have several thousand elements so it seems…
Getting Facebook to show preview images
I noticed that Facebook wasn't showing any preview images for a website I maintain (http://teknologipartiet.dk/, my pet grey tribe political party/think tank). It turns out that Facebook wants a metatag…
Scraping IMDB user ratings
There are some sites that have scraped the average movie ratings at various sites such as IMDB, Rotten Tomatos and Allmovies. Here is one particularly good (and still online) job.…