Thus, I was initially excited by REvolution Computing’s Visual Studio based IDE, but they make it difficult to try the software and their lag time in returning questions gave me cold feet.

After trying several editors and quasi-IDE’s, I chose eclipse for several reasons:

• It’s cross-platform and doesn’t install anything on windows.
• Coupled with the Stat ET plug-in, it has an excellent object browser.
• I can program C++, PHP, and Python scripts using the same IDE.

Installing Eclipse for the first time can be a time consuming process and I was skeptical that it would be worth it, but now that it’s done, I’m thrilled.

Here a pic of it’s object browser:

A pic of the entire editor (click to see full fize):

Resources:

For trouble shooting, rjava issue:

http://www.walware.de/it/statet/installation.mframe

For IN-DEPTH tutorial:

http://www.splusbook.com/Rintro/R_Eclipse_StatET.pdf

Gotchas:

On windows, make sure you have your path variables setup properly, else you may have issues. Vista can also be a pain, you may have to give administrator rights to Rcmd to make it run properly or allow users full control.

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1) Open the file dialog from any application

2) Switch to “detail view”

3) Press the control button and sort on the name

4) Either open a file or press the exit button.

You may have to restart your computer, but in Vista 64, it held immediately.

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We live in the most technologically advanced country in the world and yet our congress (and government) for that matter still doesn’t know how to use readily available technologies!

How about WIKIs or online bills? Not only could these methods allow easy cross-linking within documents and other bills – but more importantly – like I argued here – with wikis you could track who made the changes and subscribe to them too! Imagine thousands of people being able to keep tabs on the latest sausage coming out of congress! If legislators don’t want to do their job, I’m sure there are plenty of Americans that would be happy to do it for them and hold them accountable.

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One of the reasons why hydrogen fuel seemed so feasible (on one level at least) is that current investments in gas stations could be retained.

More radical approaches to fueling cars mean that owners of gas stations stand to lose their shirt.

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http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/29/15/42667493.pdf

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The purpose of this is so that I get prettier looking links

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vs

http://www.vesco.us/2009/03/technology/scanning-textbooks-and-digitizing-your-library-efficiently.html

It also helps people find my pages with google since google likes the latter more.

However, the problem with doing this is that all your old links become obsolete. A wonderful wordpress plugin resolves this, http://scott.yang.id.au/code/permalink-redirect/

However, I noticed after I installed this plugin that my robot.txt file would also redirect back to wordpress causing a “this page cannot be found” to be displayed.

After several hours, I found this solution: place a redirect in your .htaccess file, something like this:

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