I'd like to thank everyone who offered suggestions for this guide. I've
implemented almost all of them, and anyone who wants to take this thing and
make something more official out of it is welcome to.
I remain of the opinion that a simple, one-page guide which takes the user
step-by-step not o
Am Sonntag, 19. Februar 2012, 00:45:52 schrieb Russell D Brunelle:
> I'm working on creating the "perfect" step-by-step procedure for setting
> up a Linux workstation for scientific writing, based on LyX and with an
> emphasis on selecting the best available FOSS tools for creating
> graphics and p
Yihui Xie wrote:
> Yes, knitr is beyond beta state now. I appreciate if someone can add a
> description item below Sweave:
Added. P
Yes, knitr is beyond beta state now. I appreciate if someone can add a
description item below Sweave:
http://yihui.name/knitr/"; class="urllink">knitr -
literate programming. A comprehensive R package derived from
Sweave with a different design that includes code formatting,
highlighting, caching
Russell D Brunelle wrote:
> left out. I don't consider myself a LyX expert, but I do believe there is
> a need for something like this, and I gave this my best shot in the hopes
> of getting the ball rolling.
You may want to check http://www.lyx.org/AdditionalSoftware
Yihui Xie wrote:
> The to
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 9:13 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
>> [1] https://launchpad.net/~lyx-devel/+archive/release
>
> You should shout this from the rooftops. This should be on the LyX
> Wiki's home page in +3 bold typesize. If this Personal Package Archive
> (PPA) actually yields working LyXes, it chan
On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:48:53 +0100
Liviu Andronic wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 2:12 AM, Steve Litt
[clip]
> > On the other hand, Debian's more likely to
> > have a *working* LyX :-)
> >
> This is hopefully changing. Now we have a PPA containing up-to-date
> releases of LyX. [1] I will announ
Liviu,
This is really great news! I've been longing for such a PPA. Thanks!
Regards,
Yihui
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Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> This is ho
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 2:12 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
>> I'm working on creating the "perfect" step-by-step procedure for
>> setting up a Linux workstation for scientific writing, based on LyX
>
It would be nice if you could use *bold* for each of the apps included
in that page. This should improve t
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Les Denham wrote:
> Firstly, the version of Linux is not all that important. I've had good
> experiences with Ubuntu in the past, but thanks to some idiotic (in my
> opinion) decisions recently by the maintainers of both Gnome and KDE
> and by Ubuntu for its defaul
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 9:14 AM, David L. Johnson
wrote:
> On 02/18/2012 10:56 PM, Les Denham wrote:
>>
>>
>> Firstly, the version of Linux is not all that important. I've had good
>> experiences with Ubuntu in the past, but thanks to some idiotic (in my
>> opinion) decisions recently by the maint
On 02/18/2012 10:56 PM, Les Denham wrote:
Firstly, the version of Linux is not all that important. I've had good
experiences with Ubuntu in the past, but thanks to some idiotic (in my
opinion) decisions recently by the maintainers of both Gnome and KDE
and by Ubuntu for its default desktop, I've
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:45:52 -0800
Russell D Brunelle wrote:
> Here's the draft I have so far, which builds on something I mentioned
> on this list a while ago: http://russellb.livejournal.com/1335718.html
I'm sure everyone has different preferences, but here are some of my
preferences.
Firstly
The topic of the original post is too broad for me to comment on, but
if it comes down to statistical computing and graphics, I certainly
recommend R. Here are some sample documents created in LyX with R
literate programming modules:
https://github.com/downloads/yihui/lyx/sweave.pdf
https://github
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:45:52 -0800
Russell D Brunelle wrote:
> I'm working on creating the "perfect" step-by-step procedure for
> setting up a Linux workstation for scientific writing, based on LyX
> and with an emphasis on selecting the best available FOSS tools for
> creating graphics and perfo
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012, Russell D Brunelle wrote:
I'm working on creating the "perfect" step-by-step procedure for setting
up a Linux workstation for scientific writing, based on LyX and with an
emphasis on selecting the best available FOSS tools for creating graphics
and performing computations.
I'm working on creating the "perfect" step-by-step procedure for setting
up a Linux workstation for scientific writing, based on LyX and with an
emphasis on selecting the best available FOSS tools for creating graphics
and performing computations. Whenever possible I wanted to select tools
whi
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