recology
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I had seen the function idata.frame in plyr before, but not really tested it. From the plyr documentation: “An immutable data frame works like an ordinary data frame, except that when you subs...

I just realized that the gists code blocks don’t show up in Google Reader, so you have to click the link to my blog to see the gists. Apologies for that!-S

With all the packages (and beta stage groups of functions) for comparative phylogenetics in R (tested here: picante, geiger, ape, motmot, Liam Revell’s functions), I was simply interested in which ...

RHIPE: An Interface Between Hadoop and RPresented by Saptarshi Guha And this review of methods for interfacing with Hadoop suggests R’s RHIPE is quite nice.

UPDATE: See Carl Boettiger’s functions/package at Github for searching Treebase here. Treebase is a great resource for phylogenetic trees, and has a nice interface for searching for certain types ...