This week was a literary one. At work, I spent quite a bit of time reading statistical genetics journal articles. I’m in the process of writing up some results to be submitted for publication, and I’m in “literature review” mode. Unfortunately for me, my relative lack of knowledge about the field of statistical genetics (without [...]

This past week, I learned of a cool little resource for people learning a new programming language: Rosetta Code. It’s a wiki-style site that contains user-submitted solutions to many common programming tasks in a variety of languages. R is definitely my language of choice these days, and while many R solutions had already been provided, [...]