Publications by Kay Cichini

How to Download and Run Google Docs Script from within the R-Console

14.11.2011

…There is not much to it:upload a txt file with your script, share it for anyone with the link, then simply run something like the below code. ps: When using the code for your own purpose mind to change “https” to “http” and to insert your individual document id.pss: You could use download.file() in this way for downloading any file fr...

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Using SyntaxHighlighter and R Brush in Blogger

16.11.2011

If you're thinking it is time to give the code examples in your blog a more readable look, you may follow this path and use the SyntaxHighlighterFirst thing: check the SyntaxHighlighter Website for the basics.Read more » Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: theBioBucket*. R-...

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A Function for Adding up Matrices with Different Dimensions

24.11.2011

I was unlucky finding a function that can handle matrices with different dimensions. Thus, I coded a little function that sums up matrices, also coping with matrices with different dimensions.Read more » Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: theBioBucket*. R-bloggers.com offe...

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..Some More Regex Examples Added to Collection

25.11.2011

Find the below examples added to my list of regex-examples HERE. Read more » Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: theBioBucket*. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. Click here if you're looking to post or find an ...

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..A Quick Geo-Trick for GoogleMaps in R (using dismo)

26.11.2011

… I thought this geocoding-bit might be worth to share (found HERE when searching the web for dismo-documentation).Read more » Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: theBioBucket*. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topi...

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Retrieve GBIF Species Occurrence Data with Function from dismo Package

28.11.2011

..The dismo package is awesome: with some short lines of code you can read & map species distribution data from GBIF (the global biodiversity information facility) easily:Read more » Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: theBioBucket*. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R n...

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Producing Google Map Embeds with R Package googleVis

01.12.2011

(1) for producing html code for a Google Map with R-package googleVis do something like: library(googleVis) df <- data.frame(Address = c("Innsbruck", "Wattens"), Tip = c("My Location 1", "My Location 2")) mymap <- gvisMap(df, "Address", "Tip", options = list(showTip = TRUE, mapType = "normal", enabl...

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A Word Cloud with Spatial Meaning

07.12.2011

..Some time ago I did a word cloud for representing a Google Scholar search result. Tal Galili pointed me at a post by Drew Conway that expanded on the topic of word clouds lacking spatial meaning. In fact the spatial ordering of words in a word cloud is arbitrary and meaningless..As I am an ecologist, I soon came to the idea that text could be t...

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Animation Newby Excercise with R-Package {animation}

12.12.2011

Try this very simple & illustrative example for creating an animation with the animation package:myfun <- function ( ) { n = ani.options("nmax") x = sample(1:n) y = sample(1:n) for (i in 1:n) { plot(x[i], y[i], cex = 3, col = 3, pch = 3, , lwd = 2, ...

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Function for Adding Transparency to JPEG (Output = PNG)

12.12.2011

..see the function-code HERE. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: theBioBucket*. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. Click here if you're looking to post or find an R/data-science job. Want to share your content...

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