A technical guide on calculating landscape metrics in R using spatial data and buffers around sampling points for ecological analysis.
A technical analysis verifying a statistical calculation from an XKCD comic, involving normal distribution probabilities and R code.
A technical tutorial on using GeoPAT2 and R to calculate Shannon entropy for land cover patterns in local landscapes.
Explains how to use Microsoft R Client for multi-threaded parallel computing to speed up R calculations beyond vanilla R's single-threaded limits.
A guide to using functions and packages in R for data analysis, covering installation, recommended packages, and data manipulation tools.
Final post in the GeoPAT 2 series, exploring advanced pattern-based spatial analysis methods and integration into custom workflows.
An introduction to R objects, covering variables, vectors, and data storage for data manipulation and analysis.
Explores quoting, quasiquotation, and macros in R, comparing base-R and tidyverse approaches to metaprogramming.
A team shares their diverse experiences attending and presenting at the SatRdays Cardiff conference for R programming language users.
A data scientist shares ideas for micro-projects for the Summer of Data Science, including manual annotation, package comparisons, and resource curation.
A technical guide on using R's rvest package to scrape book descriptions and genres from Goodreads, adapting code from an existing project.
A guide to creating custom RStudio code snippets for quickly embedding tweets in blogdown posts using Hugo shortcodes.
A roundup of blog posts and resources discussing various data analysis workflows and tools in the R programming language.
A curated list of tutorials and resources for learning tidy evaluation (tidyeval) in R programming, focusing on non-standard evaluation techniques.
A dual perspective on rOpenSci's open peer-review process for R packages, from both reviewer and package author viewpoints.
A visual cheat sheet for the stringr package in R, originally created in French and translated to English, for string manipulation tasks.
Announcing a public lecture series honoring statistician Ross Ihaka, featuring talks on statistical computing, data visualization, and data journalism.
A developer explains their Twitter bot that monitors and visualizes Auckland bus delays using GTFS data and R packages.
A developer discusses the trade-offs between writing simple, clear code and optimizing for performance, using a real-world example of inefficient vector growth in R.
A developer solves Travis CI build timeouts by using testthat's filter argument to split R package tests into smaller, faster-running chunks.
