Setting up a Statistical Analysis Environment in OS X
In order to analyze data, there’s a fair amount of infrastructure that’s needed. I actually have a hard time remembering exactly what I did over the past k years, so I have put together a list of posts for myself. Hopefully this is useful to others as well.
- Creating a C/Fortran library and calling it from R
- There comes a time when interpreted code just won’t cut it. And there’s a time when C or Java is just the wrong tool for the job- why would one want to reinvent the wheel and create hundreds of statistical libraries in C or Java when so many are available, work pretty well, and are available for 1-click install on 3 supported platforms (unix/linux, os x, and windows)?
- Setting up my bash shell
- When you drive a car, you move around the mirrors, adjust the seat, turn on the radio- your shell is no different
- Installing GIMP so that I could put a custom masthead on my blog- you have to look sharp if you’re going to analyze data
- Installing a SQL server (mySQL) so that all of our data is in a common place, common format
- Text editor and Text Tools
- ESS
- .emacs customizations (available on request)
- ESS mode
- matlab mode
- R or S or Matlab or Python or bash or …
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