LateX SWeave/Knitr naming file

OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG this is just one of those days….. when you keep hitting the same problem over and over again. But miraculously under certain conditions, the problem is not there! Indicting that it’s not your computer set up that’s the issue. The problem lies with you but for the love of god you cannot figure out…

knitr and Emacs

Just started to look into knitr. It still amazes me how fast new systems/programs come up to replace the old. RStudio is something I would have loved before I became attached to Emacs. But now that I can’t live without M-% replace, I can’t go back. Although if you are just starting to get into…

Another Emacs trick – quick text swap

I’m currently attending the “R / Bioconductor for high-throughput sequence analysis” workshop at the Fred Hutchinson Research Centre in Seattle. I have always enjoy attending these workshops even during the “introduction to R” sections since I really enjoy seeing other people’s coding styles. There are so many nifty tricks with R, emacs…etc that I’ll never…

Reinstalling Emacs/ESS

I must say I’m not very computer savvy (compared to all those computer gurus out there). I don’t do windows update. I don’t update PERIOD………… unless the software automatically does it. Unfortunately, with use of R and Bioconductor, their packages tend to be frequently updated with new releases of the software. So when I install…

Go away auto-fill!

An annoying fill mode of emacs: Any line that is too long in any text file, emacs will automatically insert a text break when you press space or enter. This is super annoying when I’m typing in scripts or command that’s suppose to go into shell. The reason being is that I’m using Vincent Goulet’s…