The default paper sizes in LaTeX documents tend to be A4 or letter paper. If we want to use other page and paper sizes the geometry package is a handy way to make these changes. Read the rest of this entry »
A3 pages in LaTeX documents
December 2nd, 2011Tikz absolute positioning
November 20th, 2011When working with a tikz drawing within LaTeX document we might want to locate an object using an absoute position on the page rather than leaving LaTeX to make the decision for us. Read the rest of this entry »
Tikz Nodes
October 17th, 2011Nodes are used in tikz to place content in a picture as part of a LaTeX document. Read the rest of this entry »
Tikz Introduction
September 27th, 2011The pgf drawing package for LaTeX provides facilities for drawing simple of complicated pictures within a LaTeX document. There are many options available within the package and in this post we consider some of the basics to get up and running. Read the rest of this entry »
Cricket All Round Performances
September 19th, 2011In cricket a player who can perform well with both the bat and bowl is a great asset for any team and across the history of international cricket there have been a number of cricketers that hall into this bracket. Read the rest of this entry »
Colours in R
September 19th, 2011There is a handy webpage which provides a chart of colours available in R. The chart is also available in pdf from the webpage.
Scatter plots with images
September 4th, 2011Edward Tufte has written extensively on the presentation of data covering good and bad practice. He has made a number of suggestions for adaptations of regularly used graph types to assist with the interpretation and understanding of data. Read the rest of this entry »
LaTeX Typesetting – Basic Mathematics
August 1st, 2011LaTeX is very strong for typesetting mathematical equations. Read the rest of this entry »
Getting rid of white space at the beginning and end of a string
July 28th, 2011There are situations where we are working with character strings extracted from various sources and it can be annoying when there is white space at the beginning and/or end of the strings. This whitespace can cause problems when attemping to sort, subset or various other common operations. Read the rest of this entry »
R.NET
July 4th, 2011The R.NET project provides a mechanism for communicating with R from a .NET application. This appears to be a promising way to create simple interfaces to some of the functionality of R. Read the rest of this entry »
