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I'm giving a talk about some aspects of language and conceptual tools for thinking about how to solve problems in several programming languages for statistical computing and graphics. I'm particularly interested in language features that relate to: o expressive power: ease of translating what you want to do into the results you want o elegance: how well does the code provide a simple

I am trying to do what is perhaps the most basic procedure which can be done with the R software. Under Windows XP Home Edition, I want to get a copy of the function "gam," then put it in and use it. I intentionaly use informal terms, rather than technical terms whose exact meaning I might or might not know. I am finding this extremely frustrating. Every time I try to do anything,

Anyone read the rough cuts of this book? I''m interested in checking it out because Bruce Tate''s work is always great. How does it compare to the agile books (2nd edition) in terms of timeliness, difficulty, etc. Thanks! Nathan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

...an item in the list into a recycle bin is, I think a good use of drag ''n drop too. It lets you add a function without breaking the semantic of the page. Drag and dropping into a recycle bin is a fairly typical thing that a user understands in the context of the desktop and should be easily learnable if you are already dragging and dropping to reposition items. I personally use this sortables+recycle but require a "Save Changes" button click to execute the changes. Some might use AJAX for instant changes but I prefer to give the user a method to cancel and the current web semantic i...

Hello! I am a student in a university department here in Greece, and we are developing a WebCast solution for our new radio station we have made. We work with Oddcast plugin for WinAMP, which connects to an IceCast_v2 server, which runs on a WinXP machine. I would like to ask for 2 major issues we face: -> Because we have some problems with the weather conditions here and sometimes the

Since I had my type development epiphany a couple of days ago, I''ve decided to write down my understanding of developing simple types, at http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PracticalTypes. I''d appreciate comments from people who already know how to develop types as to correctness, and also comments from people who are new to type development about whether it''s a