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Lab Scripts

visit the scripts page

Stanford Unix Computing Resources

Stanford has some nice powerful servers you can use to run Unix/Linux programs, such as STATA.

This page has information on which computer to connect to: Choosing the Right Computer http://www.stanford.edu/services/unixcomputing/which.html. bramble.stanford.edu is a good bet. Just connect with your SUnet ID and password.

Psychology Departments Resources

Using BIAC

BIAC is the psychology department server.

Mounting BIAC

You can mount it to your mac using the command:

 sudo mount_nfs -P biac2:/biac2/knutson <destination folder>

Its a little funky because it seems that no mater where you mount it, a link to it called "knutson" shows up on your desktop. Also I'm still working out the permissions issues, so you may have trouble changing the files on there at the moment.

~Stephanie 2008/06/13

Using Symbolic Links to BIAC Space

If you use full directory paths in your scripts instead of relative paths, you might find some of your scripts broken when your data gets moved to BIAC. You can do a search and replace with 'sed' or you can create a symbolic link to the new location of the data.

Here's an example:

 ln -s /path/to/biac/mount /path/to/symbolic/link

SPM

help: Jeff Cooper

MATLAB

help: Jeff Cooper, Stephanie Greer

open source alternative: Octave

computers: dmthal, amygdala

Adobe Illustrator

help: Kacey Ballard, Dan Yoo

open source alternative: Inkscape

resources: Kacey Ballard's Illustrator Cheat Sheet

Adobe Photoshop

help: Dan Yoo

open source alternative: GIMP

R

help: Dan Yoo, Logan

STATA

help: Greg Larkin

resources:

Resources for learning Stata - http://www.stata.com/links/resources1.html

Princeton Tutorial on Stata - http://www.princeton.edu/~erp/stata/main.html

SPSS

Lab Copies: