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Does any know a simple way to count the number of pages in a PDF file? I''m using teh RTEX plugin to generate a PDF via pdflatex with a defined start page number. I want to determine the final page number so I can start the next PDF in sequence. Thanks in advance for your help! -cal

I''ll pose a question partly for fun, partly out of interest to see what everyone else is doing to survive the pain of the day job. It''s for the professional J2EE developer converts out there. Let''s say someone hired you to write a Basecamp clone, but it has to be done in Java, say on the Tomcat or JBoss platform. What does your stack look like now that you''ve

Hi, i am looking to deploy a ruby on rails site. I currently have some asp.net 2.0 sites hosted using IIS. I have looked at some of the issues with hosting a rails site on IIS and this looks more hassle than what it is worth. I tried it and i couldn''t get it to work. Can someone tell me what is the easiest way to get a rubyonrails site up and running on a server running windows.

Hi all, I am about to start a new RoR project. Which version of mysql is the current best one to use? I will be using the soon-to-be-released RoR 1.0 for the project. I really don''t want to start a PostreSQL vs. MySQL vs. Whatever war. I have all databases including Oracle at my disposal. This project will be my testbed for using RoR with mysql. I will be doing other tests with other dbs

hi, I have two questions: #first (SPSS vs. R): I just compared the output of different PCA routines in R (pca, prcomp, princomp) with results from SPSS. the loadings of the variables differ vastly! in SPSS the variables load constantly higher than in R. I made sure that both progr. use the correlation matrix as basis. I found the same problem with rotated values (varimax rotation and rtex=T

Hi, how does one create a symbolic link within a Rails application? At this time, I can perform this action at the command line but I''m not sure how to do it within Rails. BTW, I''m doing the following command in Mac OS X: ln -s $SITE_ROOT/common_directory/* $SITE_ROOT/new_directory Thanks in advance, -Conrad -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was

Hi R users. I've got a problem in producing the pdf file from Latex with R code. When I run the code Sweave("example.Rtex") in R it seems working, but when I run the Latex file it doesn't. The code error shown to me is below: *Runaway argument? {echo=FALSE} data<- read.csv("C:\\Users\\Daniele\\Desktop\\dati\\dati_england ! File ended while scanning use of \FV at

I don''t know if I missed this on the list, but the Agile Web Development with Rails book is now at version 4.0, for those of us who bought the PDF from the Prag Prog site. Just a few typos and corrections from the looks of it, but can''t hurt to get the latest. You can reorder the book for download at: http://books.pragprog.com/titles/rails/reorder Cheers, Tom

Hi list, I have hacked together a small script to generate an ActiveRecord model from a DBDesigner 4 (fabForce.net) model file. Take it apart and feed it to the pigs ;). the article: http://tua.ch/ruby/current.html and the script: http://tua.ch/ruby/dbmodel/compute_model.rb best of whishes for the new year, kaspar code manufacture & ruby lab at http://www.tua.ch/ruby

This release is unchanged from release candidate 1 other than to update the version number in the Help>>About dialog. Instant Rails is a one-stop Rails runtime solution containing Ruby, Rails, Apache, and MySQL, all preconfigured and ready to run. No installer, you simply drop it into the directory of your choice and run it. It does not modify your system environment. This release of

I''ve seen some reports of problems with running Rails (version 1.0 here) on Ruby 1.8.3. Is this true across the board or just Mac OS? I''m setting up a Linux server and want to know if 1.8.3 is ok on that. Thanks, Jamie

Hello, I''m planning to deploy a hybrid 2D/3D visual fx and image manipulation engine as a server accessible via the Web. So you can send Flickr images to it for all manner of image trickery. My engine uses a little text-based language I devised that is parsed and a resultant image produced. The UI for this service collects the input image and associated params and passes the collection

Greetings. I love R, we run Gentoo. I want to maintain R packages in the same methods I use for the rest of them; in Gentoo this is in "the portage tree", or in "a portage overlay". I am working towards something I consider suitable for production release, and wanted to ask if there are conventional blessings which I ought to ask of the R-devel folks; How does this usually

Hello, I try to document some R scripts for my collegues and observed the problem, that Sweave strips comment lines away. As a small example I write in an Rtex file: \begin{Scode} ## a small example test() # line comment \end{Scode} ... the .tex file generated by Sweave only contains: \begin{Schunk} \begin{Sinput} test() \end{Sinput} \end{Schunk} ... and all the comments are lost.

Hello, I try to document some R scripts for my collegues and observed the problem, that Sweave strips comment lines away. As a small example I write in an Rtex file: \begin{Scode} ## a small example test() # line comment \end{Scode} ... the .tex file generated by Sweave only contains: \begin{Schunk} \begin{Sinput} test() \end{Sinput} \end{Schunk} ... and all the comments are lost.

I'd like to create a suitable batch file or shortcut so that I can run Sweave on a .Rnw or .Rtex file simply by clicking on the file from Windows Explorer in Windows XP (as I do with latex, bibtex etc). This looks tantalisingly possible using R CMD BATCH or Rterm possibly in combination with a .bat file. Has anyone succeeded is setting it up and would give me a pointer? Thanks Gordon

I''m building a feature for my app which allows the admin to compose an email and send it to a list of registered users (~1000). What is the best method for doing this? Should I create one email and BCC all the recipients? Is there a limit to how many recipients can be included in one email? or Should I send the same email to individual users? In the past I''ve had problems

Announcing the initial release of the RTex Plugin for Rails. This plugin adds support for .rtex templates/partials, which consist of a mixture of LaTeX (http://www.latex-project.org/) markup and Ruby (using ERB). The resulting LaTeX markup is passed through pdflatex to generate a PDF for the user. You can find more information on the plugin on the Rails wiki Plugin page, or at the

In my rails app I need to create pdf reports on the fly. I have installed railspdf, wich is working fine. But, how can I create tables and paragraphs and stuff? Can I mimic an .rhtml file (using <% for ...%> etc? Or is it wise to use Ruby::PDF directly? Is there anyone out there with experience in this, and who is willing to share his findings? Thx -- Posted via

Following considerable off list discussion, I will post this on the list in the hope that it may help others who experience the same grief I did getting R sources to build on Windows. Firstly there is just no way that, starting with a clean version of Windows 2003 server, and following the instructions provided in the Admin and Installation manual, web sites and various FAQs, I could