What can a Stata user do with a Samba server? Pretty much the same thing you would do with any computer. My Stata is installed on my Windows PC. Now Samba allows me to store either do-files or data on the remote FreeBSD server and access them easily.
Suppose that the remote box were called myUnix. [...]

R took a long time to compile yesterday because it depends on all kinds of things that I didn't have installed already. One of them is the Tcl/Tk language, which apparently comes from two separate FreeBSD ports -- one named tcl85 and the other tk85. The latter made trouble. It aborted the installation and it [...]

My installation of R 2.8.1-1 is in progress as I write this. The original instructions for installing R on FreeBSD are at the R Wiki, but before you dash there, you may want to know that I had to make some changes. They are listed below:
First, the good news: on my FreeBSD 7.0 installed in [...]