Thinking inside the boxThinking inside the boxImproving simple charts- June 30, 2007 Earlier today and via Planet Debian, Lucas blogged about the 'age distribution' of Debian packages, defined as the time since the last (re-)compilation. He illustrated his findings with an, umm, rather ugly chart. Having climbed onto the soap box once before, I would like to point out how easy it can be to create simple, informative, and, at to least to me, prettier charts using R. Lucas included a URL to the data. The first nice thing to note that we can read the data directly from the URL...http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2007/06/29#nicer_charts_two New OpenMPI packages- June 24, 2007 Debian had OpenMPI package since early last year when Florian Ragwitz made some initial stabs at packaging. The package has seen a number of NMU and patches since then, but was generally getting cobwebs ... which was too bad because OpenMPI seems to have some wind behind its sails upstream. Unfortunately, little of that got packaged for Debian. After some discussions on and around the debian-science list, a new maintainer group was formed on Alioth under the pkg-openmpi name. Tilman...http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2007/06/23#openmpi_1.2.3 New York bound- June 15, 2007 On the second try I got lucky with the lottery for the New York Marathon on November 4 this year. So that may make it Boston, Chicago (on October 7) and now New York for 2007.http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2007/06/14#newyork_2007_entry Madeleine Peyroux at Ravinia- June 15, 2007 Returning from Toronto, we went straight to Ravinia to see one of my favourite vocalists: Madeleine Peyroux who didn't disappoint. Lovely afternoon evening as Ravinia is such a treat: summer, lawn, picnic and excellent live music. Let's see if I get out there another time this year.http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2007/06/14#madeleine_peyroux_june2007 Toronto the good- June 15, 2007 Went to Toronto last weekend for a wedding. Couldn't have been nicer -- on Toronto Island with its nice view of the city. The ceremony got slightly rescheduled because of the massive storm coming through last Friday afternoon which forced everything inside. Only drawback was that the party ended too soon due to ferry schedule. Caught up with some friends in town and glanced and a few of those fancy new digs that have come up since we left in 2000: the Opera house, lots of construction at the.http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2007/06/14#toronto_june2007 |