Publications by Scott Chamberlain
Two new rOpenSci R packages are on CRAN
Carl Boettiger, a graduate student at UC Davis, just got two packages on CRAN. One is treebase, which which handshakes with the Treebase API. The other is rfishbase, which connects with the Fishbase, although I believe just scrapes XML content as there is no API. See development on GitHub for treebase here, and for rfishbase here. Carl ha...
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My little presentation on getting web data through R
With examples from rOpenSci R packages. p.s. I am no expert at this…Web data from R View more presentations from schamber Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Recology. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. Clic...
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Use case: combining taxize and rgbif
Sure thing….this is just the sort of thing for which rOpenSci is being built. A colleague of mine recently saw our packages in development and thought, “Hey, that could totally make my life easier.” What was made easier you ask? This was his situation: He had a list of ca. 1200 species of birds and wanted to first obtain the most curr...
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My talk on doing phylogenetics in R
I gave a talk today on doing very basic phylogenetics in R, including getting sequence data, aligning sequence data, plotting trees, doing trait evolution stuff, etc.Please comment if you have code for doing bayesian phylogenetic inference in R. I know phyloch has function mrbayes, but can’t get it to work…Phylogenetics in R Vi...
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rOpenSci won 3rd place in the PLoS-Mendeley Binary Battle!
I am part of the rOpenSci development team (along with Carl Boettiger, Karthik Ram, and Nick Fabina). Our website: http://ropensci.org/. Code at Github: https://github.com/ropensciWe entered two of our R packages for integrating with PLoS Journals (rplos) and Mendeley (RMendeley) in the Mendeley-PLoS Binary Battle. Get them at GitHub (rp...
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LondonR meetings presentations
Three presentations uploaded on LondonR meetings website. I especially enjoyed the JD Long presentation on the seque package for simulations using Amazon’s EC2. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Recology. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tuto...
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I Work For The Internet !
UPDATE: code and figure updated at 1150 am CST.The site I WORK FOR THE INTERNET is collecting pictures and first names (last name initials only) to show collective support against SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act). Please stop by their site and add your name/picture.I used the #rstats package twitteR, created by Jeff Gentry, to sear...
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Recology is 1 yr old…
This blog has lasted a whole year already. Thanks for reading and commenting. There are a couple of announcements:Less blogging: I hope to put in many more years blogging here, but in full disclosure, I am blogging for Journal of Ecology now, so I am going to be (and already have been) blogging less here. More blogging: If anyo...
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Weecology can has new mammal dataset
So the Weecology folks have published a large dataset on mammal communities in a data paper in Ecology. I know nothing about mammal communities, but that doesn’t mean one can’t play with the data…Their dataset consists of five csv files: communities, references, sites, species, and trapping data. Where are these sites, and ...
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Recology has moved
Recology has moved to Github, using Jekyll.I just finished moving the Recology blog content, etc. to Github. This move is intended to make it easy to do exactly what I want with this blog without the constrictions of Blogger. Thanks for continuing to come back and read. I won’t delete the Blogger version of this blog, but only new conten...
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