My thoughts on Statistics, Python, R and Emacs; with an occasional tangent sprinkled in here or there.
I recently found this useful YouTube video which seems to be questions that come up regularly as I am using Windows more and more.
How to access WSL files from windows and Windows files from WSL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i547sSXhq0E
I prefer the *nix environment, but let's face it; at times we have no choice on our OS. One thing I often struggle with is creating symlinks in Windows similar to how I'd do it in *nix. No more "ln -s ...".
This seemed helpful to do it through the command line with Admin privileges:
https://www.howtogeek.com/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/
There is another way, but I couldn't get it to work again just now. Hence the personal note I'm making now.
New-Item -ItemType SymbolicLink -Path ".emacs" -Target D:\repos\emacs\emacs.el
I am growing more and more annoyed with all these system updates breaking my usual work routines. After updating Ubuntu of course my editor of choice no longer worked (Grr!).
I found this blog post for installing it:
https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2023/08/gnu-emacs-29-1-ubuntu-ppa/#google_vignette
Thanks to Ji M!
P.S. Make sure you install emacs-gtk
As I've said, this blog is meant for things I find myself repeatedly doing. Especially, when I am doing them on different *nix systems I end up googling and eventually finding my same references:
This stackoverflow thread tends to be my main one to use for when I need to look for files containing as specific thing in them. For instance, I often forget the full syntax in proc means for SAS.
So I go to my code bases and execute the following:
find . -name "*.sas" | xargs grep "proc means" | less
I also sometimes need to find files that contain specific things in them and copy them to a specific location. I found this stackexchange thread useful (although not totally clean yet):
find . -name "*.sas" | xargs grep -l "proc means" | xargs cp -t ~/destination
