Archive for February, 2008

LibX - Browser Plugin for Library Searches

LibX is a browser plugin for Firefox and Internet Explorer that provides direct access to your library’s resources. Hundreds of so called “public editions” for different libraries are available. The Stanford U edition adds a new toolbar with the same search options that Socrates provides. It supports off-campus access wit proxy and search in Google [...]

Free ESRI shapefiles and grids

The Berkeley/Penn Urban & Environmental Modeler’s Datakit is being made available as part of the URBAN & ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT 2050 PROJECT at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development (IURD) at the University of California, Berkeley under a grant from the National Science Foundation. It consists of a series of viewable and downloadable ESRI shapefiles [...]

How to install rimage on Mac

rimage is an image processing module for R. To install the package, fftw as well as libjpeg are needed. Here is what worked for me on Mac Intel 10.4.11 , R version 2.6.0.