Statistically Irrelevant

Some posts about Vim, tmux, R, Rcpp, Git and other stuff.

Terminals and tmux

iTerm and Terminator
Setting terminal colours
Settings for bash_profile
tmux: an introduction
tmux: making a conf file
tmux: setting active/inactive pane colours
tmux: copy/pasting between panes and windows
tmux: saving sessions with tmux-resurrect
tmux shortcuts
tmux: improving the LaTeX compile experience in Vim

Vim

Vim Basics
Vim: a minimal vimrc
Vim: a less minimal vimrc
Vim: recording keystrokes
Setting up Vim
vimrc features
Vim: customise syntax colours
More Vim-jitsu

R and Rcpp

Make an R package
Simple Rcpp functions
Make an R package using Rcpp
Rcpp classes (Part 1): A simple class
Rcpp classes (Part 2): Public/private/read-only fields
Rcpp classes (Part 3): Using header files
Rcpp classes (Part 4): Nested classes
Rcpp classes (Part 5): Derived classes
Unit testing in R
Writing documentation for R packages
Submitting R packages to CRAN

Git: version control and syncing

Setting up Git
Git: how to revert to an earlier version
Git: more about the revert command
Using Git to sync different computers
Git: branch and merge (fix syncing issues)
More Git fu

latexdiff and git-latexdiff

Git and latexdiff: compare versions of LaTeX documents
Troubleshooting latexdiff installation

Notational Velocity

Notational Velocity: an introduction
Installing and setting up Notational Velocity to work with Simplenote and Dropbox

SQL

Getting started with SQL
Extracting data from SQL

Beamer templates

Installing the emerald fonts package
All emerald fonts
Beamer blackboard template (black)
Beamer blackboard template (green)
Beamer blackboard template (gray)

Quick installation on OSX

Installing Homebrew on OSX
Installing wget on OSX
Installing Vim properly on OSX
Installing Git on OSX
Installing R on OSX
Installing Python on OSX
Installing LaTeX on OSX
Installing Other Programs on OSX
Taking screenshots on OSX
Installing Virtual Machines with VirtualBox

Quick installation on Linux

Linux Vim install
Linux bash colours
Linux Git install
Linux tmux install
Linux R install
Linux Python install
Linux gcc6 install
Quick LaTeX install
Quick Solaris setup

C++

Unit testing with doctest

Old posts

(These posts were useful to me at one point, but are no longer the way I do things. For example, I now use doctest rather than GoogleTest for C++. Still, these posts may be useful to somebody out there...)

tmux: manually installing version 2.1 (unnecessary as of 2017)
Troubleshooting latexdiff installation on Linux
Unit testing in C++ with Google Test
Example 1: Minimum working example with Google Test
Example 2: separating the code and the tests with Google Test
Example 3: splitting tests into separate files and folders
Example 4: Testing an R package that uses Rcpp with testthat and Google Test


What is this?

Several months after making my first R package, I started to make another. The only problem was — I could not remember the procedure, and so had to spend some time learning the process all over again. The same thing happened when I recently returned to using Vim. After seeing Still Alice, I was inspired to make some short tutorials to help me remember how to do some of these (random) things.

After a friend of mine asked me a couple of questions about Vim and Rcpp, I decided to expand my personal tutorials and put them up here, and perhaps someone else will find them useful. Also, it makes it easy for me to look up the things I have trouble remembering. Although all the posts (in some way) are related to making statistical software, they are only really concerned with the programming side of things — hence the name 'statistically irrelevant'.

Almost everything on here comes from Stackoverflow posts and tips from others' websites; I've tried to give references to the original sources where possible. This website is my attempt to collect all the useful tutorials/instructions that I have come across in one place.




Credits: style file from Andrew Radev's site.

Last updated: 1 November 2017