VirtualRDC News @ Cornell

For those of you who are R users, at user request I created CSV versions of all implicates.

Sample code for R (contributed by C. Kohnen):

Since these files are in a csv format and the first row of the file contains the variable names, one would usually use

dataname = read.csv("datafilename.csv")

If you only want certain variables/columns, let say 1-2 and 17-20,  use (outside of R)

cut -d , -f 1-2,17-20 datafilename.csv > smallerfile.csv

(You can pull off the variables names from the CSV by doing )

head -n 1 datafilename.csv > var_names.csv

Then in R

newdata = read.csv("smallerfile.csv")

This can be adjusted to include more columns, but just adding more
column #’s.

CAED invites submissions of extended abstracts and sessions for its 8th conference on research using enterprise micro data. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, reallocation, productivity, ICT, R&D, competition, transition, development, labor, adjustment costs, environment, corporate governance, trade, and linked employer-employee analysis. The conference will include keynotes, plenaries, and parallel and poster sessions.
It will be held at the Central European University (www.ceu.hu) in downtown Budapest. Registration deadline is April 1.

Keynotes and Plenaries:
Tim Bresnahan, Bill Megginson (keynotes); Eric Bartelsman, Stefan Bender, Nick Greenia, John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin, Francis Kramarz, Seppo Laaksonen, Julia Lane, Felix Ritchie

From Lisa (Cornell RDC administrator):

The NX upgrade for RDC10 did not occur on 5/15 as planned.  It has been
rescheduled for Friday, 5/23, from 6:30-8am.  RDC10 will be down during
this time.

The VRDCwiki is available again, sorry for the delay. [More »]

Due to a RDC10 downtime on Thursday, access to NSF01 will not be possible from Cornell. [More »]

We are upgrading the VRDCwiki. It will be unavailable for the rest of the day.

All network connectivity to the compute center housing the VirtualRDC will be unavailable from 8 AM – 10 AM on Sunday, May 18, 2008. This will prevent access to this web server and all compute nodes. Running jobs will continue to run.

R has been upgraded from R 2.6.1 to 2.7 on the restricted-access SSB server. Also upgraded installed packages:

• lattice (0.17-6 to 0.17-7)
• MCMCpack (0.9-3 to 0.9-4)
• mgcv (1.3-30 to 1.3-31)

If users need any further packages installed, please let us know at virtualrdc@cornell.edu.