MIT/GNU Scheme in OS X

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I’ve not mentioned this previously, but I bought a Macbook Air a few months back and it’s one of the greatest purchases I have ever made. I love this thing! It is so damned sexy (observing both its hardware and software), and so damned fast. I picked-up the baller, 13″ model with the Core i7 processor and 256 GB solid-state… Read more →

vim + Python

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Below are my current .vimrc settings which, I find, are particularly pleasant for hacking Python. syntax on filetype indent plugin on set tabstop=4 set shiftwidth=4 set softtabstop=4 set expandtab set autoindent set number ” a useful addition to Python source files is the following: ” vim: tabstop=8 expandtab shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 ” this requires the ‘set modeline’ option in vimrc “… Read more →

Installing MySQL for Python in Ubuntu

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Whilst on the grind this evening, hacking on some Python code in a newly-installed Ubuntu virtual machine, I needed to install MySQL for Python. Building the package, pre-installation, requires mysql_config — which I had some difficulty locating in the repositories. After flailing about a bit, the solution is to install the libmysqlclient-dev package.   $ sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev The… Read more →

Installing RExcelXML from The Omega Project in R

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A quick post to capture the resolution to the past 20 minutes I have spent in frustration trying to install RExcelXML from Omegahat (The Omega Project for Statistical Computing). As this is a source package, the dependencies need to be satisfied manually (which is a bit baffling, frankly — surely there is a workaround for this using a makefile-like facility… Read more →