Research workflow thoughts

First, a cool article on the Social Science Statistics Blog about research tools, that refers to [Stata+Word] as low-tech and [R+LaTeX] as high-tech. As usual, I can’t make up my mind. Somedays I’m all open-source, somedays I like the canned stuff.

Second, a new version of LyX Mac came out recently, and it fixes all of the problems that I was having before (namely inserting math). If you’re not familiar, LyX is a WYSIWYG front-end for LaTeX that can make using LaTeX for serious or even casual typesetting a lot more convenient.