Publications by Ralph
Creating a Presentation with LaTeX Beamer – Basic Slides
In a previous post we looked at using the LaTeX beamer package to create presentations. Given a title page and outline of a presentation the next stage will be to create the content that appears in various slides of the presentation. Fast Tube by Casper To create a slide we make use of the frame environment and the first argument is the title for...
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Creating a Presentation with LaTeX Beamer – Bullet Lists
When writing a presentation we might want to use a bullet list to highlight some key points that might be lost if they are part of a large body of text. We can use the standard LaTeX environments for creating lists within a beamer presentation in a straightforward way. Fast Tube by Casper The bullet lists can be created using the itemize or enume...
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Creating a Presentation with LaTeX Beamer – Tables
Tables of information can be included in a LaTeX beamer presentation in the same way that they would be incorporated into any other LaTeX document. The tabular environment is used and, if necessary, the tables could be numbered but this probably doesn’t make as much sense as labelling and numbering tables within an article or book. Fast Tube by...
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Generating Balanced Incomplete Block Designs (BIBD)
The Balanced Incomplete Block Design (BIBD) is a well studied experimental design that has various desirable features from a statistical perspective. The crossdes package in R provides a way to generate a block design for some given parameters and test wheter this design satisfies the BIBD conditions. For a BIBD there are v treatments repeated r ...
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Creating a Presentation with LaTeX Beamer – Boxes
We can add coloured boxes with text or mathematics into a LaTeX beamer presentation which is particularly useful if we have definitions, theorem or computer code to highlight this information that may not be so accessible within a paragraph of text. Fast Tube by Casper The easiest way to create a box is to use the various pre-defined environments...
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Creating a Presentation with LaTeX Beamer – Equations and tikz
Many presentations created using LaTeX beamer included mathematical equations and these can be easily included in a presentation and in this post we will consider using the tikz package to add various interesting elements to equations, such as lines between text on a slide and part of an equation. Fast Tube by Casper The examples on this page hav...
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Creating a Presentation with LaTeX Beamer – Including Images from Graphics Files
It will often be more efficient to generate graphics in an external software package and then include these files in a LaTeX beamer presentation. The standard LaTeX approach to including graphics can be utilised to perform this task. Fast Tube by Casper The graphicx is useful for including graphics files in a presentation and this package has a c...
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Useful functions for data frames
The R software system is primarily command line based so when there are large sets of data it is not easy to browse the data frames. There are various useful functions for working with data frames. For example, after loading data from a text file we might want to view the first few lines of a set of data. The functions head and tail return the fi...
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Charting the performance of cricket all-rounders – IT Botham
Cricket is a sport that generates a large volume of performance data and corresponding debate about the relative qualities of various players over their careers and in relation to their contemporaries. The cricinfo website has an extensive database of statistics for professional cricketers that can be searched to access the information in various...
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Creating a Presentation with LaTeX Beamer – Using Overlays
Overlays can be used in a LaTeX beamer presentation to reveal parts of a slide sequentially, which can be a useful way of imparting information to your audience. There are a number of different ways that overlays can be created depending on the sophistication required in the presentation. Fast Tube by Casper The pause command is the easiest way t...
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