This is how I would like to structure a git workshop if I had to prepare one.

The structure of the workshop is thought to be split on three different sessions, separated by at least one day, although possibly it's better to leave a week between them:

Session 1: Using …

condformat v0.2.0 has made it into CRAN!

condformat helps visualizing DataFrames. With a ggplot2-like syntax we can format columns of our DataFrame and view it directly in the RStudio Viewer (screenshot). See how we combine several formatting rules in this simple example:

If you have problems with the webcam in skype with Linux, you may have read that you need to run skype with:

    LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l2convert.so skype

However, you may get the message:

    ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l2convert.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored …

I recently installed a Wine application which associated itself to the .dat extension. I tried uninstalling the application to get rid of the association, but the uninstaller did not remove it.

The next thing I tried was: 1. Open Nautilus 2. Right click on a .dat file, Properties 3. Click …

Problem description

If you have an .eps plot generated with gnuplot (i.e. using set terminal postscript eps enhanced color), and you have tried to insert it to a LaTeX document (with \includegraphics...), when compiling it using latex -> dvips -> ps2pdf, you may notice how the title and other properties of …