Department of Statistics, Rice University
How-To Collection
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a one-page version of the department computing guide.
a quick reference to emacs.
a quick reference guide to Unix commands.
Basic introduction to Unix
"Secure Shell Client" (SSH) is the preferred way to connect to Rice
networks. This tutorial shows you, with step by step figures, how to use ssh/x-win to connect
to stat (and other) network. A pdf version
is available.
Email settings of stat network (POP, IMAP settings etc) with step by
step instructions on how to set it up. A pdf
version is available.
This tutorial shows you how to connect to your office windows desktop
from your home machine, using windows remote desktop facility.
A pdf version is available.
This tutorial covers many useful materials. It shows you how to print
from you office desktop or your laptop; how to connect to the wireless
network of Rice. It also lists many freely available software that are
really free or free because of Rice site licensing.
A pdf version of this tutorial is available.
Basic information about R on stat network.
How to use matlab within emacs.
How to use S-Plus/R on Unix with Emacs Speaks Statistics. A pdf version is available.
How to use ESS/SAS.
cvs system maintains a center repository and let you check out, check in
files conveniently both locally and remotely. It allows you to work on
the most current version of your files from any machine. It is
useful when you frequntly work off-campus. (A pdf
version of the guide.
Lyx is a WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) document processor
based on latex. Pdf or Lyx
version of this guide is
also available. You will also need a practice
package.
how to write slides in latex/lyx using ppower4. Here is the pdf version and the demonstration lyx document and the corresponding slides in pdf format.
prosper is a latex package for presentation.
Some basics of C Shell. A pdf version is
available. Some additional topics are discussed.
( pdf version )
Under Unix, it is easy to compile a fortran file and load it into S-Plus
or R. However, it is not easy to do so under windows, even with the help
of Compact Visual Fortran. This howto shows two solutions: Using Visual
Fortran or a combination of f2c and Visual C++.