R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics, providing a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques. The R environment is open source software under GPL. R has rich software packages and is widely used for statistical analysis. RStudio Server is an R integrated development environment (IDE) that provides many useful features
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Latex is stuck with a strange problem, see more information for details.
Posted on$ make pdflatex main.tex This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live 2015/Debian) (preloaded format=pdflatex) restricted write18 enabled. entering extended mode (./main.tex LaTeX2e <2016/02/01> Babel <3.9q> and hyphenation patterns for 81 language(s) loaded. (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (./usenix.sty (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/psnfss/mathptmx.sty)) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/epsfig.sty (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/latexconfig/graphics.cfg) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pdftex-def/pdftex.def (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/infwarerr.sty) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ltxcmds.sty))))) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ifpdf.sty)
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Why do I need to run latex/bibtex three times to make everything look good?
Posted onWhy does latex need to be executed 3 times like following? pdflatex main.tex bibtex main pdflatex main.tex pdflatex main.tex Copied from https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/53235/why-does-latex-bibtex-need-three-passes-to-clear-up-all-warnings. The reason is as follows: 1, At the first latex run, all cite{…} arguments are written in the file document.aux. 2, At the bibtex run, this information is taken by bibtex and the
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How to install Tex Live on CentOS 7 Linux?
Posted onThe LaTex packages in CentOS 7 Linux is not sufficient enough. I would like to Install Tex Live such as Tex Live 2016. How could I install it on CentOS 7? The best way I found is to use the texlive offical installation tool to install the full packages for texlive 2016. It will take
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How to compress lists of consecutive citation numbers to one range in Latex?
Posted onHow to compress lists of consecutive citation numbers to one number range in Latex? For example, change [14], [15], [16], [17], [19] to [14-17], [19] That will save some space for the paper/document written in latex. The cite package is great from my experience. You just need to add usepackage{cite} in the document’s preamble and
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How to generate reference of web pages in the IEEE citation format with bibtex?
Posted onHow to generate reference of web pages in the IEEE citation format with bibtex? From the IEEE Citation Reference, the reference for web page is like this: WWW Basic Format: [1] J. K. Author. (year, month day). Title (edition) [Type of medium]. Available: http://www.(URL) Example: [1] J. Jones. (1991, May 10). Networks (2nd ed.) [Online].
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How to view DVI files on Linux?
Posted onHow to view the DVI files generated by latex on Linux? It seems evinece can not open it. After install the evince-dvi package, evince should be able to view dvi files: # yum install evince-dvi
How to balance the two columns of text on the last page of a Latex doc?
Posted onHow to balance the two columns of text on the last page of a Latex doc? 2 good Latex packages are good at balancing the two columns of text on the last page of a Latex doc (choose either one that are good for you). balance Usage: At the beginning of the doc: usepackage{balance} At
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How to convert a latex document with figures to a HTML file?
Posted onHow to convert a latex document with figures to a HTML file? htlatex (On Fedora, it is in the package texlive-tex4ht) can generate the html from a latex doc better than latex2html. From my experience, it can produce a better html file.
Ghostscript reports “Unrecoverable error: stackunderflow in .setdistillerparams”
Posted onWith the command -dPDFSETTINGS=/print for ps2pdf, I got: GPL Ghostscript 9.10: Set UseCIEColor for UseDeviceIndependentColor to work properly. Unrecoverable error: stackunderflow in .setdistillerparams make: *** [pdf-print] Error 255 How to fix it? I use this workaround: ps2pdf -dColorConversionStrategy=/LeaveColorUnchanged -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer psfile.ps from this. An alternative is to use -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress.
How to convert a latex file to a single page html
Posted onHow to convert a latex file to a single page html? htlatex is a good choice. On Fedora, install it by yum install texlive-tex4ht. To generate the HTML page from a latex file doc.tex: htlatex doc You can use the latex2html (can be installed on Fedora by yum install latex2html). $ latex2html -split +0 -info
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svn: how to clean up my repository directory?
Posted onI have a local svn repository. I work in the repository, e.g. compiling latex documents and building software packages, and there are many useless temporary files there. How can I clean it up by automatically clean these temporary files like the git clean -f in git? svn seems has no built-in function for this. But
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How to install the caption latex package on Fedora?
Posted onI got a message: Package subcaption Error: `caption’ package not loaded I guess that I should install the cpaton package. How to install the caption latex package on Fedora? Fedora 19 is already shipped with the latex Tex Live 2013. You can directly install it by yum. # yum install texlive-caption For older Fedora releases,
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Squeezing Space in LaTeX – SysTutorials QA
Posted onHow to squeeze space in Latex? A good tutorial about “squeezing space in LaTex” in here from the Cambridge University’s website: http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/squeeze.html These settings work great for me: setlength{textfloatsep}{1pt} setlength{abovecaptionskip}{1pt} setlength{belowcaptionskip}{1pt} A more aggressive configuration to squeeze space in a LaTex doc: % save space usepackage{enumitem} setlist{nolistsep} % no space between refs usepackage{bibspacing} setlength{bibspacing}{baselineskip} usepackage[small,compact]{titlesec}
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Installing Latex and Compiling a Latex Docuent in Linux
Posted onLatex is a popular document preparation system that is widely used for creating scientific and technical documents. Compiling Latex documents on Linux is a straightforward process that requires only a few Latex packages and a set of commands. By following the steps outlined in this post, you can easily compile Latex documents on your Linux
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How to convert a ps file to a pdf file
Posted onHow to convert a ps file to a pdf file that is available for publish (embedded fonts, etc)? Convert the file.ps ps file to file.pdf: $ ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer file.ps file.pdf</pre> Embedding Fonts in PDFs with pdflatex by Jeffrey P. Bigham: http://www.manticmoo.com/articles/jeff/programming/latex/embedding-fonts-with-pdflatex.php
Vim Howtos and Tips
Posted onVim is a fast and handy editor on *nix systems. Like Emacs, Vim has a steep learning curve as you get constantly get new things. However, the effort deserves it as you efficiency is highly improved. Here, I summarize the tips and howtos I learned using Vim. Some previous posts on vim are tagged with
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Latex Cheat Sheet
Posted onLatest has many commands and it is not easy to quickly remember them all. Then, a cheat sheet will be very useful. Here is a collection of cheat sheets for Latex that I collected from the Web. Latex cheat sheet Latex cheat sheet by Winston Chang: Download latex cheat sheet. LaTeX Math Symbols https://web.archive.org/web/20190707092927/http://web.ift.uib.no/Teori/KURS/WRK/TeX/symALL.html
An Online JPG to EPS Converter
Posted onConverting the JPG images to EPS is frequently need especially when write documents in LaTeX. I introduced how to Convert JPG Images to EPS on Linux. However, not everyone have a Linux box available at any time. We set up an Online JPG to EPS Converter to help people convert JPG to EPS. Convert JPG
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How to Convert JPG Images to EPS
Posted onI write a lot latex documents and most of the documents have images in it. Latex deals EPS very well, while sometimes we need to add JPG / PNG images to it. I find converting the JPG images to EPS ones is the most convenient way to embed JPG images to latex documents. On Linux,
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