Lyx Releases 2

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Lyx releases new version- now if only there was a SIMPLE way to put R code in a Lyx existing text class (having tried Sweave and sweaved myself into knots ! 😦

and I hope Ubuntu Linux 10.10  netbook fixes the curious case of disappearing menu bar in Lyx

see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-appmenu/+bug/619811

(Hint start Lyx using from the terminal:
QT_X11_NO_NATIVE_MENUBAR=1 lyx)

Latest News from the

http://www.lyx.org/News#item2

We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.9

 

Beta Release: LyX 2.0.0 beta 4 released.

February 6, 2011

We are pleased to announce the fourth public pre-release of LyX 2.0.0.
Except usual bugfixing we fixed random crashes connected with the new background export and compilation feature.

As far as new features is considered it is now possible

  • to set the table width,
  • customize the language package per document,
  • export LyX files as a single archive containing linked material (e.g. images) directly via export menu.

 

Since this is most probably the last beta release we also added convertor for old (1.6) preference files which are automatically checked on the startup now.

 

Linux Counter- Use Linux so be counted

Here’s a nice website at

http://counter.li.org/

You can basically spend 2 minutes and register yourself publicly/anonymously/or your machine

and some fun at http://counter.li.org/estimates.php

Revolution R Enterprise 4.2

Revo R gets more and more yum yum-

he following new features:

  • Direct import of SAS data sets into the native, efficient XDF file format
  • Direct import of fixed-format text data files into XDF file format
  • New commands to read subsets of rows and variables from XDF files in memory;
  • Many enhancements to the R Productivity Environment (RPE) for Windows
  • Expanded and updated user documentation
  • Added support on Linux for the big-data statistics package RevoScaleR
  • Added support on Windows for Web Services integration of predictive analytics with RevoDeployR.

Revolution R Enterprise 4.2 is available immediately for 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems and both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows systems. Pricing starts at $1,000 per single-user workstation

And its free for academic licenses- so come on guys it is worth  atleast one download, and test.

http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/downloads/free-academic.php

 

SAS Knowledge Exchange

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Here is an interesting website by SAS.com – it showcases lots of business analytics content more from a conceptual rather than a tool based perspective- have a glance yourself.

http://www.sas.com/knowledge-exchange/business-analytics/

Copyright © SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved

Google Chrome Web Store

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If  you are a Google Chrome user and especially

if you are a not a Chrome user- check out the great web store with Games , Free apps (including for Blogging)

Nice1

 

 

SAS to R Challenge: Unique benchmarking

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An interesting announcemnet from Revolution Analytics promises to convert your legacy code in SAS language not only cheaper but faster. It’ s a very very interesting challenge and I wonder how SAS users ,corporates, customers as well as the Institute itself reacts

http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/sas-challenge/

Take the SAS to R Challenge

Are you paying for expensive software licenses and hardware to run time-consuming statistical analyses on big data sets?

If you’re doing linear regressions, logistic regressions, predictions, or multivariate crosstabulations* there’s something you should know: Revolution Analytics can get the same results for a substantially lower cost and faster than SAS®.

For a limited time only, Revolution Analytics invites you take the SAS to R Challenge. Let us prove that we can deliver on our promise of replicating your results in R, faster and cheaper than SAS.

Take the challenge

Here’s how it works:

Fill out the short form below, and one of our conversion experts will contact you to discuss the SAS code you want to convert. If we think Revolution R Enterprise can get the same results faster than SAS, we’ll convert your code to R free of charge. Our goal is to demonstrate that Revolution R Enterprise will produce the same results in less time. There’s no obligation, but if you choose to convert, we guarantee that your license cost for Revolution R Enterprise will be less than half what you’re currently paying for the equivalent SAS software.**

It’s that simple.

We’ll show you that you don’t need expensive hardware and software to do high quality statistical analysis of big data. And we’ll show that you don’t need to tie up your computing resources with long running operations. With Revolution R Enterprise, you can run analyses on commodity hardware using Linux or Windows, scale to terabyte-class data problems and do it at processing speeds you would never have thought possible.

Sign up now, and we will be in touch shortly.

Take the challenge

 

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SAS is a registered trademark of the SAS Institute, Cary, NC, in the US and other countries.

*Additional statistical algorithms are being rapidly added to Revolution R Enterprise. Custom development services are also available.

**Revolution Analytics retains the right to determine eligibility for this offer. Offer available until March 31, 2011.

Google Realtime Live Updates on Egypt Yemen Tunisia Jordan..

Using Google RealTime, a small icon on the left margin, you can monitor the latest uprisings. Apparently you can still get shot in most of the world to ask for freedom. What a trillion dollars of industrial arms complex could not do in Iraq or Afghanistan, hackers at Wikileaks, Bloggers in Middle East and Media people at Al Jazzera are doing right now. I am probably too young in 1989 when communists fell, but watching dictators fall by people power than external arms is good, no.

Now if only a few more people could listen to some Chinese Democracy