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Ok, It's a lame name but it was the best I could come up with after spinning around in a desk chair for a few minutes. Here is the general idea behind it. Once, in an interview, Steve Balmber, the CEO of Microsoft threw some standard MS FUD out about Linux being a poor choice becaue each distro tends to "mutate" linux and has no solid direction I thought "Wouldn't

Hello, Does anyone know if it is possible for JavaScript to detect what text is currently selected by a user? I would like to allow the user to select some text and then grab that text using JS. I saw these guys do it : http://www.enlighter.com/ but I''m not sure if its possible to do this using JS only or if it needs a browser extension. Thanks! --Dave.

Hi, I am confused by results from: > ddply(aa, names(aa), colwise(sum)) I thought ddply was just calling colwise(sum)() with each column. However ddply() returns a 13 x 5 result !! The general result I expected is similar to that of apply() , or using colwise(sum)() alone. Shouldn't ddply() produce the same ? Thanks in advance for your help, - Stuart Andrews >