The following changes are being made to the HBSGrid cluster and storage, effective 7/6/2020:

Software Updates

We have installed License updates for:

• MATLAB
• SAS
• StatTransfer
• Mathematica
• AMPL/Knitro

We have installed Version updates to:

• MATLAB has been updated to r2020a (from r2019a)
• StatTransfer has been updated to v15 (from 14.1)
• Mathematica has been updated to 12 (from 11.2)

The...

Since moving to Grid v2.5 we offer R v3.5.1 centrally, which might be more new than what you have in your home directory. And the RStudio launch script from the NoMachine drop-down menu will run our centrally-installed RStudio (also newer).

If you had used a local R install (== miniconda in your home folder), to transition to the central one, you'll need to do the following:

1) if your .bashrc or .bash_profile had a command to export the RSTUDIO_WHICH_R, please comment out this line and then restart all...

RCS would like to congratulate class of 2019 graduates and those who are departing for new opportunities! In anticipation of your departure from HBS, we'd like to bring to your attention the RCS-related departure checklist that may require action on your part before losing access to HBS resources on June 30...

This month's tip is by our Senior Statistician, Xiang Ao: 

Stata’s margins command has been a powerful tool for many economists. It can calculate predicted means as well as predicted marginal effects. Sometimes we’d like to compare those marginal effects. People use margins and marginsplot to generate marginal effects; then draw conclusions on whether there is a difference between marginal effects, based on whether the confidence intervals overlap or not. However, that can actually be wrong. In this post, I’d like to introduce a way to...