Ryan and Debi & Toren – Page 3 – tech, travel, and talk

R – Finding and Setting Working Directory

Posted on August 27, 2021August 27, 2021

R, like many software programs, likes to have a folder or directory on your computer to operate in. When you start R, depending on how you start it and whether…

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Launching HandBrake 1.4.0 in Kubuntu 21.04

Posted on August 22, 2021August 22, 2021

The fine folks at HandBrake have updated their software and distribution system to a Flatpack approach. Their Flatpack for Linux is based on Gnome, not KDE, which is fine, but…

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LibreOffice Calc – VLookup with dates

Posted on August 22, 2021August 22, 2021

In a different post on this blog, I showed how to use Vlookup to match lists. Someone commented on that post and indicated that it didn’t work with dates. It…

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R – changing mirror in RStudio

Posted on August 19, 2021August 19, 2021

CRAN (The Comprehensive R Archive Network) is a distributed set of servers that allow people to download the various R packages from a bunch of servers that are all “mirrors”…

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Linux FFMPEG – Flip Vertical Video to Horizontal

Posted on August 3, 2021August 3, 2021

I was recently shooting some videos on my phone to share with someone else and accidentally flipped the phone before filming a clip. I never film vertically as I know…

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Linux – Batch Convert .wav to .flac

Posted on July 18, 2021July 18, 2021

I ran into a weird issue the other day where SoundConverter, a GUI for converting audio files, was generating flac files that my audio player couldn’t see. I’m still not…

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LibreOffice – KDE Integration Package for Skinning/Color Management

Posted on July 15, 2021July 15, 2021

Super simple note for future reference and for anyone else running into this issue. I upgraded my version of LibreOffice in Kubuntu 20.10 to a pre-release version to fix a…

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Linux Server – tar files and directories

Posted on July 11, 2021July 11, 2021

I recently had to move all my websites from one virtual private server (VPS) to another. When I only had a few such websites, I was okay with using SFTP…

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