Linux is an operating system – similar to Windows or Mac. It is freely available and very popular amongst researchers and programmers. Since many of the scripts you write will…

Almost anyone doing research at some point will have to input or extract data from an Excel spreadsheet. However, it is possible to export an Excel file as a .csv…

When you use the SSH client PuTTY a lot, it can become quite tedious selecting your server and then writing in your username and password. That’s why I decided to…

Before I made the switch to developing on a Linux machine, I noticed that the Python module for calling R (RPy2) seemed to be having some problems on Windows. This…