Software I use – Andi Fugard

This page is mostly so I can quickly get going on a new computer (and it’s a bit out of date)…

R (I miss decent type checking)
RStudio
Haskell (GHC)
Python. The Pygame library is handy for psych experiment programming.
Crimon Editor: small and nice (and last updated in 2008 – I haven’t used it in years).
M$ Excel. Useful for quick manipulation of tables, e.g., adding colours to make effects standout. I find it handy to copy output from R, paste into Excel, and then use Data… Text to columns… to make into a table, e.g., for pasting into a paper. Or you could do a write.csv to clipboard. Niki also told me about this handy LaTeX table plugin
M$ Powerpoint. Necessary evil. Faster than beamer and with a LaTeX plugin. OpenOffice fineish too.
LaTeX (MikTeX on Windows), WinEdt (one of the few shareware programs I’ve purchased – excellent) and LaTable. It’s possible though painful to make posters using beamerposter. Recently Adobe decided to break its Reader program so that it no longer works with WinEdt. The solution: install version 8.1.3 and ensure all PDFs open in the SAME window. Now using the excellent TeXnicCenter which does very sensible compiling and sync with the pdf.
OpenOffice Draw. Makes PDFs for inclusion in pdflatex files.
Mendeley
Firefox and Thunderbird.
Command Prompt Here powertoy – unnecessary in Windows 7.
ImDisk
VirtualBox
SFTP SilverSHielD (server) and Swish (client) for Windows
Cmap, for making concept maps
ScreenToGif – “Screen, webcam and sketchboard recorder with an integrated editor”. As the name suggests, outputs to GIF.

Qualitative annotation

Prover and Mace.
CkC-Check Coherence.
GeNIe
LEAN
pyAgrum – just discovered (April 2022); looks useful for imprecise probabilities
Hackenbush – this is an interesting game that is related to surreal numbers