Sometimes you have these little nuggets tucked away somewhere. Yesterday I found I could add the following line to my .muttrc and now it loads my huge mail folders in a flash!!
set header_cache=/home/<username>/.mutt_cache
It used to be so boring to see mutt loading a folder with over a thousand messages. Now, it takes no time!!
Should be a [...]
I just spiced up my mutt with colors. Used the basic color schemes from here and then changed it to suit my requirements. Looks [...]
There is no direct command in R for renaming variables and that may make it less than obvious for some people. Of course, once you know, it is simple. The following command does the trick.
names(dataframe)[names(dataframe)=="oldvariablename"]<-”newvariablename”
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There are various ways in which you can get R to calculate area under a curve. Some of these are explained in various posts on this thread. Ravi Varadhan wrote up the following function that uses trapezoidal rule for calculating area between a 45 degrees line and a curve. I used it to get gini coefficients [...]
Graphics made in R are best saved as postscript files if the files are to be used for printing. This can be done by wrapping your commands (for example, plot) in a postscript device, or by printing the plot to postscript after the plot has been created.
Method 1.
postscript(“filename”,width=x,height=y)
plot commands
dev.off()
Method 2.
Package reshape is meant for aggregating, reshaping and tabulating data.Tabulation is done in two steps: melt and cast. Read help for these functions.
melt(sl1,id.var=,measure.var=”foo”)->sl2
This will create a dataframe sl2 which will have all the variablesin sl1 and “foo” being reorganised for casting later. See head(sl2) to see the form it takes.
The following command takes [...]
Function “names” gives list of columns/variables in a dataframe.
We can use R2HTML package to direct output of R to an html file.
Remember, R2HTML package is different from R2html command in the prettyR package.
The basic syntaxt of using it in an interactive R session is as follows.
library(R2HTML)
HTMLStart(filename = “~/test.html”, echo=TRUE)
..R commands …
HTMLStop()
This works neatly with Emacs and [...]