Just today we’ve hit 1000 commits on taxize! taxize is an R client to search across lots of taxonomic databases on the web. In honor of the 1000 commit milestone, here’s some stats on the project....
Recently I had need to create a client for scraping museum metadata to help out some folks that use that kind of data. It’s called musemeta. One of the data sources in that package uses the open so...
Recently I’ve had fun playing with the GitHub API, and here are some notes to self about this fun having.
Setup
Get/load packages
install.packages(c('devtools','jsonlite','httr','yaml'))
libr...
I’ve reworked sofa recently after someone reported a bug in the package. Since the last post on this package on 2013-06-21, there’s a bunch of changes:
Removed the sofa_ prefix from all functio...
The paper
One paper from my graduate work asked most generally ~ “How much does the variation in magnitudes and signs of species interaction outcomes vary?”. More specifically, we wanted to know i...