Installing the latest version of R on Ubuntu/Mint
I wrote about this before, but since this is a frequent problem and my last post wasn't brief, here's a shorter version. The primary way to install software in Linux…
Getting free wifi forever in airports on Mint 17.1
Many airports have free wifi services. The problem with these is that they are time-limited, usually to 1 to 3 hours. This can be very annoying if one is stuck…
Installing VIM in R on Mint 17
For data imputation, for simplicity I like to use single imputation instead of multiple imputation. This can easily be done with the VIM package using the irmi command. So, I…
RCurl in R on Mint 17
So I was installing something (forgot what), and had problems with RCurl: * installing *source* package ‘RCurl’ ... ** package ‘RCurl’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked checking for curl-config...…