VirtualRDC News @ Cornell

Kate is a editor that is installed on most (KDE-based) Linux desktop environments (including our own login nodes at the VirtualRDC). Ian S. has kindly provided us with a syntax-highlighting file for SAS programs. It can be downloaded and installed from http://www.vrdc.cornell.edu/extras/RPMS/noarch/sas-kate-syntax-1.0-0.noarch.rpm, although we might move it to our openSUSE BuildService at a later stage (to support other architectures). We actively use this file on our SUSE-based systems, including (soon) on NSF01.

We are going to put VRDC6401 into build-mode soon (within the next two weeks). [More »]

In preparation for the R upgrade on NSF01, we will be upgrading R on VRDC6401 over the weekend. Please let us know if this causes problems. R will be upgraded from 2.4.0 to 2.5.1.

The office suite (word processor, spreadsheet, etc) OpenOffice 2.2 is now available on NSF01.

For users of NSF01, the following software has been installed:

• R (compiled and available for download here at the VirtualRDC)
• ImageMagick (from the SLES SDK)

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Hash indexes are a new feature in SAS 9 data steps. They can help you with quick lookups, under certain conditions. The SAS site has a ‘cheat sheet‘ you can download and print.

The SmartSVN package we provide (see http://vrdc.ciser.cornell.edu/news/?p=177) has been installed on NSF01. [More »]

aML is now available on NSF01. [More »]