Lazy Bayesian

The United States of America has always been about its people and relied upon a common spirit of gratitude to our forefathers and God for inspiration and guidance. In recent times, however, it seems people are more inclined to rely upon partisan thought and policy for how we should think and do. Before anyone can engage politically, they are asked to declare to which party they belong. 2020 has provided extraordinary challenges to all, which would be difficult in any time or circumstance. These issues are further exacerbated by the petty squabbling, and divisive speech and actions of elected officials. Current events seem to push every American citizen to choose a side. But this begs another question. Why are there sides? Are we not all citizens of this country? Do we not all wish for a better tomorrow and a better world? Is it requisite that we are all the same, or agree on every issue to live in unity and peace? Why is the nation more divided than ever, when we need to be banding tog

I've been using R for some time and over the years I've had one consistent nagging problem.  rJava Perhaps the single most temperamental library in the whole history of R. If you are like me, you likely try to avoid anything Java based, like using openxlsx  instead of xlsx . I don't use Java but a number of libraries I do use, have it as a dependency. For example, I like to use qdap because it has a lot of nice tools for qualitative analysis, which of course uses Java. The big problem is that rJava never installs properly and gives some error along the lines of not being able to find jdk files, jni.h, or Java home when you try to call the library. I have a couple quick steps here that can get rJava up and running quickly. I haven't noticed this issue in Windows which means the library is probably written for Windows and the developer hasn't bothered to make it function out-of-the-box on Mac OS. Two quick steps and you can get rJava working in R on Mac OS. Downloa