May 17 2012

Visualizing the CRAN: Graphing Package Dependencies

wrathematics
I had been meaning to start toying with the igraph package for a while. So a few weeks ago (lay off, I'm busy), I decided to grab a bunch of CRAN data about package dependencies. The easiest way that I could think to get this information was to just grab the html files for all the package descriptions and chop through them. Quick note before I forget: I'm not looking at any base packages. Only Read more >>

May 1 2012

Project Euler in LaTeX: Problem 2

wrathematics
I probably won't do any more of these, and I hadn't really planned on even doing this one, but I've been inspired. Apparently some Russians found my first post about doing Project Euler problems in LaTeX. According to google translate, my post was described as being part of "the horrors of our Internet" that our comrade stumbled on inadvertently through searching for something completely unrelated. Read more >>