recology
code and such

I occasionally think about these various topics and ping back and forth between them, thinking I’ve got to make a package more user friendly, then back to thinking oh, I really should make this pac...

Why Butte County? I went to college at California State University, Chico - in Butte County, CA. I did a BA degree in Biology there. It was a great program as it was heavily focused on natural his...

In rOpenSci - as in presumably most open source projects - we want the entire project to be sustainable, but also each individual software project to be sustainable. A big part of each software pr...

Sublime Text is pretty great. Let’s start at the beginning. Why would my primary editing tool not be vim? My background is as a biologist, spending way to many years in grad school. My first prog...

I was returning to a long-term project I’ve been working on - a package for caching HTTP requests in R called vcr, a port of the Ruby gem vcr - when you do that thing you do when you are porting a ...