Author: Luke Miller
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Altering Eclipse user name
Using StatET’s code generation templates is handy, but the standard Eclipse variable for ${user} just inserts the currently logged-in user’s account name. If you want a different name to appear when ${user} is called, one method is to alter the eclipse.ini file. Specifically, add the line -Duser.name = Your full name at the end of…
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Current temperature conditions at the Marine Science Center
Updated December 2013: The seawater temperature monitoring is no longer functional since I moved away and someone turned off the computer. The data I collected for 2010, 2011, and part of 2012 are available as one csv file: 2010-2012_MSC_temps.csv The time stamps are all in Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5, no daylight savings time) and the…
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Analyzing gels and western blots with ImageJ
How to use the free program Image-J to quantify bands on gels and western blots.
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Printing to pdf with MS Office 2007
For those not aware, if you have Office 2007, Microsoft makes available a free download to enable you to save files as .pdf. SaveAsPDFandXPS.exe is available on the Microsoft site. It is not necessary to buy a copy of Adobe Acrobat, or go searching for any of the many free pdf printing utilities out there,…
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Pictures from Quoddy Head, Maine
Photo gallery from the Three Seas program trip to Lubec Maine. October 2010.
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A thermocouple datalogger based on the Arduino platform
Building a 8-channel temperature datalogger using Arduino.
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Shooting movies with a Canon 40D
This Sourceforge project “EOS Camera Movie Record” provides the ability to record high quality movies from older Canon EOS DSLR’s that have Live View functionality, but lack a movie mode from the factory (40D, 50D, 450D etc). It requires you to be tethered to a PC to record the video via USB cable, and there’s…
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Modifying basic plots in R
Below is a walk-through of some of the basics of customizing plots in R. These are all based on the graphics package that comes in the base installation of R. Let’s start by making a basic plot in R. In the code snippets below, green text behind a # sign is considered comments by R,…
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Eclipse and StatET – a working environment for R
How to use Eclipse and StatET to create a handy-dandy development environment for R. Using the Eclipse environment provides a nice colored-syntax script editor, an R console, and an object browser to let you peruse the variables you’ve put into memory. If you’re a Matlab or Systat refugee, this arrangement may be the closest you…
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Spring in the intertidal
Spring sprang sometime recently, making for nice tidepooling weather in Nahant.