Convert between citations formats with R
rOpenSci has recently released a package that should be very handy for people that work with multiple citation managers (e.g. Endnote and a BibTex based manager like JabRef). Here’s the...continue reading.
rOpenSci has recently released a package that should be very handy for people that work with multiple citation managers (e.g. Endnote and a BibTex based manager like JabRef). Here’s the...continue reading.
Sometimes it’s useful to be able to extract data from a published figure. If the figure isn’t a vector based format (for which the numeric data is probably still in...continue reading.
Just for fun, I decided to compare the estimates from lmer and INLA for the variance components of an LMM (this isn’t really something that you would ordinarily do –...continue reading.
I just saw an announcement on R Bloggers about the anytime package. It looks to be a very handy package to convert dates in pretty much any format to Date...continue reading.
I came across this post which gives a method to estimate Pi by using a circle, it’s circumscribed square and (lots of) random points within said square. Booth used Stata...continue reading.
I just came across a nice little post on acquiring and visualizing geodata in R using the Max Planck Institute of Ornithology as an example. It’s by the rOpenSci guys....continue reading.
Just a little fun today… the R console isn’t the most interesting of things… text is typically either black or red (assuming default settings in RStudio). There’s a package though...continue reading.
If you don’t know rOpenSci, then I recommend checking them out. They write a lot of really good packages for R. A relatively new seems to be drake. I’ve not...continue reading.
A recent blog post regarding data visualization had some barplots I liked the look of (aesthetically…for research purposes, they wouldn’t be suitable). They look as if they’ve be coloured in...continue reading.
Histograms are good, density plots are also good. Violin and bean plots too. Recently I had someone ask for a plot where you could see each individual point along a...continue reading.
I’m sure there’s a better way out there, but I struggled to find a way to dissolve polygons that touched/overlapped each other (the special case being buffers). For example, using...continue reading.
UPDATED… I’ve been doing some spatial stuff of late and the next little step will involve intersecting points with possibly many overlapping polygons. The sp package has a function called...continue reading.
R is a great program for generating top-notch graphics. But to get the best out of it, you need to put in a little more work. Here are a few...continue reading.
The openrouteservice provides a new method to get geodata into R. It has an API (or a set of them) and an R package has been written to communicate with...continue reading.