• Jul
    28
    2009

    More electoral reform in Italy

    I imagine everyone in Italy is tired of electoral reform efforts at the national level, at least for the moment. Here, however, in an interesting example of cross-level diffusion, the Tuscan electoral law is being changed again.
    The electoral law of 2004 had a majority bonus, and differing electoral thresholds for electoral lists depending on the [...]

  • Jul
    02
    2009

    Summarizing a data-frame with xtable

    Today I had to pretty-print a summary of a R data-frame composed of lots of factors. I thought I would use LaTeX and the xtable package.
    Unfortunately, if you try the natural
    xtable(summary(data))
    you get a table that is very, very wide. Since there’s no easy way in LaTeX to split wide tables over multiple pages, that approach [...]

 
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