Blogg about R

Today I found a rather good blogg about R. It will cover a lot of questions beginners will have and moreover directs you to some interesting sources for other R-related stuff.

asciidoc

Some days ago I found accidentally an article about AsciiDoc. It seem to be a handy tool for writing short documents like articles, books and man pages. It is a text document format and can be translated to HTML and DocBook markups. You can find some examples on AsciiDoc homepage which demonstrate the capabilities of AsciiDoc.

BIOCONDUCTOR

If you need to analyse genomic data BIOCONDUCTOR is a good place to look at. BIOCONDUCTOR is based on R, actively developed by scientists worldwide and well documented. Of course it’s open source and therefore free to use for everybody.

Bioconductor is an open source and open development software project for the analysis and comprehension of genomic data.
-by bioconductor.org-

You can find
an example about “microarray image segmentation” in the R Newsletter Volume 6/3, August 2006.

Changes @ Kanotix.com & welcome Sidux

For a long time was Kanotix my favourite Debian derivative (and still is). It was based on Debian Sid an provided therefore quite up to date software and moreover an almost inexhaustible software repository. But it’s rather hard to keep it stable and the developers had to struggle really a lot to achieve stability. Therefore the Kanotix main developer Kano decided to base the distribution on a stable one (may it be Ubuntu or anything else) and many developers left.

These days there started a new project called sidux.

“On 24th of November 2006 sidux was formed by a group of people who strive to do the impossible: making Debian Sid (aka “Unstable”) stable.” -statement by http://www.sidux.com/-

I myself like Debian Sid and hope that sidux
will become what Kanotix was for a Debian Sid based distribution. It’s a young project though based an a lot of experience and there is the chance for everybody to contribute.