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HOWTO's

This is a collection of instructions for various tasks I have had to perform in the past, and which may be useful to others.

SYSTEM

• Search for all files containing particular keywords
• Create animated GIF from images in Linux (command line)
• Display only specific lines from a text file
• Restart Gnome desktop environment from a remote terminal
• Check differences between two text files using the command line
• Rename multiple files simultaneously using the rename program

R

• Add an R mirror to a software repository list in Ubuntu Linux
• Calculate type I, II and III sums of squares for ANOVA in R
• Render an R markdown document from the command line
• Download and install the SLHV SimInf package in R
• Convert British National Grid references to UK Eastings/Northings
• Convert UK Easting/Northings to WGS84 latitude/longitude
• Reorder boxplots in R

GITHUB

• Clone a GitHub repository to a local computer and check out a branch
• Create a GitHub repository for a R package
• Install R packages from GitHub repositories

LATEX

• Install the University of Glasgow beamer theme