Re: [O] An Org centric research lab: Goodbye MS word, excel, and powerpoint

2014-07-12 Thread Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
Grant Rettke g...@wisdomandwonder.com writes: Octave is an option, too: https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Since people are championing python, and R and Octave have been mentioned, let me throw this one into the discussion: http://www.sagemath.org/ Sage is a free open-source mathematics

Re: [O] An Org centric research lab: Goodbye MS word, excel, and powerpoint

2014-07-12 Thread TP
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Doyley, Marvin M. mdoy...@ur.rochester.edu wrote: Since the gentle approach didn't work, I made it mandatory requirement that all junior members must generate manuscripts in org, It's good to be the king. :)

Re: [O] An Org centric research lab: Goodbye MS word, excel, and powerpoint

2014-07-12 Thread Doyley, Marvin
jorge.a.alf...@gmail.com (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) writes: Thanks everybody for highlighting the benefits of python. I am exploring python with a few undergraduates. I am impressed how well python plays with Fortran, f2py is awesome. The syntax is very similar to MATLAB so migration should be

Re: [O] An Org centric research lab: Goodbye MS word, excel, and powerpoint

2014-07-11 Thread Martin Schöön
Python is widely used in industry and these days many CAD/CAE tools use Python for scripting... -- Martin Schöön http://hem.bredband.net/b262106/index.html

Re: [O] An Org centric research lab: Goodbye MS word, excel, and powerpoint

2014-07-11 Thread Detlef Steuer
Am Wed, 9 Jul 2014 22:37:12 + schrieb Doyley, Marvin M. mdoy...@ur.rochester.edu: I notice that you prefer to use python rather than matlab. Is there a reason for this ? Matlab is free at my institution so cost is not an issue. Free here, too. But we prefer R for Data Analysis, not

Re: [O] An Org centric research lab: Goodbye MS word, excel, and powerpoint

2014-07-11 Thread Ken Mankoff
Hi Marvin, * On 2014-07-09 at 18:37, Doyley, Marvin M. wrote: I notice that you prefer to use python rather than matlab. Is there a reason for this ? Matlab is free at my institution so cost is not an issue. An additional blog post (with good discussion and links to other posts) on the Python

Re: [O] An Org centric research lab: Goodbye MS word, excel, and powerpoint

2014-07-11 Thread Grant Rettke
Octave is an option, too: https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Grant Rettke | ACM, ASA, FSF, IEEE, SIAM g...@wisdomandwonder.com | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/ “Wisdom begins in wonder.” --Socrates ((λ (x) (x x)) (λ (x) (x x))) “Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to

Re: [O] An Org centric research lab: Goodbye MS word, excel, and powerpoint

2014-07-11 Thread Grant Rettke
Now that I wrote that... MATLAB is totally worth the money. A nice option for reproducible research is also to develop on MATLAB and just make sure that OCTAVE can run it, too. Nice when you don't want to worry about N licenses for deploying on a HPC cluster. Grant Rettke | ACM, ASA, FSF, IEEE,

Re: [O] An Org centric research lab: Goodbye MS word, excel, and powerpoint

2014-07-10 Thread Grant Rettke
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Doyley, Marvin M. mdoy...@ur.rochester.edu wrote: I notice that you prefer to use python rather than matlab. Is there a reason for this ? Matlab is free at my institution so cost is not an issue. Doing all of your reproducible research with free software will

Re: [O] An Org centric research lab: Goodbye MS word, excel, and powerpoint

2014-07-10 Thread Ken Mankoff
* On 2014-07-10 at 20:45, Grant Rettke wrote: On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Doyley, Marvin M. mdoy...@ur.rochester.edu wrote: I notice that you prefer to use python rather than matlab. Is there a reason for this ? Matlab is free at my institution so cost is not an issue. It won't be

Re: [O] An Org centric research lab: Goodbye MS word, excel, and powerpoint

2014-07-10 Thread Doyley, Marvin M.
Good point. Thanks On Jul 10, 2014, at 8:45 PM, Grant Rettke g...@wisdomandwonder.commailto:g...@wisdomandwonder.com wrote: Doing all of your reproducible research with free software will maximize the number of people who may reproduce your research. MATLAB is a great, great tool, and not many

Re: [O] An Org centric research lab: Goodbye MS word, excel, and powerpoint

2014-07-10 Thread John Kitchin
Matlab is free for us too, but it does not work in org-babel on windows. it works ok on linux, but not as well as python. Plus, we use python for all our research, and most importantly, I like it better ;) Doyley, Marvin M. mdoy...@ur.rochester.edu writes: Thanks John, The biggest challenge

Re: [O] An Org centric research lab: Goodbye MS word, excel, and powerpoint

2014-07-09 Thread John Kitchin
That is great! Congratulations, and thanks for sharing. I have also converted my group into an org-centric group. Did you find many challenges in implementing this in your group? Doyley, Marvin M. mdoy...@ur.rochester.edu writes: Dear All, Here is a link to a manuscript my research group

Re: [O] An Org centric research lab: Goodbye MS word, excel, and powerpoint

2014-07-09 Thread Grant Rettke
Congratulations on your effort. Grant Rettke | ACM, ASA, FSF, IEEE, SIAM g...@wisdomandwonder.com | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/ “Wisdom begins in wonder.” --Socrates ((λ (x) (x x)) (λ (x) (x x))) “Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”

Re: [O] An Org centric research lab: Goodbye MS word, excel, and powerpoint

2014-07-09 Thread Doyley, Marvin M.
Thanks John, The biggest challenge has been getting my team to use emacs, and appreciate its power. A few of the students are now comfortable with it, but most are still novices, even the computationally savvy members of my team. For now I am forcing everybody to use org as a latex