As ecologists, we often start graduate school worshiping the ivory tower of academia with its freedom to pursue important ecological questions. However, studies have shown that most of us do not en...
I recently engaged with a number of tweeps in response to my tweet:
Rule number 1 wrt science code: DO NOT post your code on your personal website
That tweet wasn’t super clear, and it’s diff...
UPDATE As you can see in Patrick’s comment below you can convert to GeoJSON format files with rgdal as an alternative to calling the Ogre web API described below. See here for example code for conv...
I posted earlier this week about sofa (here), introducing a package I started recently that interacts with CouchDB from R. There’s been a fair amount of response at least in terms of page views, so...
Have you heard of DataONE? It stands for the Data Observation Network for Earth, and I am involved in the Community Education and Engagement working group at DataONE. We try to communicate about da...