This is a short follow up on THIS posting.. I will briefly show how to use the dismo- and the googeVis package to plot species occurrences on an interactive Google map, like the one below (HERE is the R-script)
Online Questionnaire & Report Generation with Google Drive & R
Here's how I did it in 3 easy steps: (1) Set up a form in Google Docs/Drive. (2) Choose "Actions" and "Embed in Website" to get the URL for the iframe and put it in a post, like below. Then, go to the spreadsheet view of the form on Google Docs/Drive a...
Get Long-Term Climate Data from KNMI Climate Explorer
You can query global climate data from the KNMI Climate Explorer (the KNMI is the Royal Netherlands Metereological Institute) with R.Here's a little example how I retreived data for my hometown Innsbruck, Austria and plotted annual total precipitation....
Follow-Up: Making a Word Cloud for a Search Result from GScholar_Scraper_3.1
Here's a short follow-up on how to produce a word cloud for a search result from GScholarScraper_3.1:# File-Name: GScholarScraper_3.1.R# Date: 2012-08-22# Author: Kay Cichini# Email: [email protected]# Purpose: Scrape Google Scholar search result# ...
Toy Example with GScholarScraper_3.1
A commentator on my blog brought up this nice idea of how to use the GScholarScraper function for bibliometrics..I altered the code a little bit which enables to set a year since when results should be returned and added a field to the output collectin...
Web-Scraper for Google Scholar Updated!
I have updated the Google Scholar Web-Scraper Function GScholarScaper_2 to GScholarScraper_3 (and GScholarScaper_3.1) as it was deprecated due to changes in the Google Scholar html-code. The new script is more slender and faster. It returns a dataframe...
Tcl/Tk GUI Example with Variable Input by User
I recently used R with GUI-elements for the first time and browsed through the available online resources, but I didn't quite find what I was searching for: The user should be able to put in some variables and call a function with a button. In the end ...
Use IUCN API with R & XPath
Thanks to a posting on R-sig-eco mailing list I learned of the IUCN-API. Here's a simple example for what can be done with it (output as pdf is HERE):require(XML)require(maptools)require(jpeg)input = "panthera-uncia"h <- htmlParse(paste("http://api....
Avoid Overplotting of Text in Ordination Diagram
Referring to a recent posting on r-sig-eco mailing list I'll add this example to theBioBucket:library(vegan)library(vegan)data(dune)sol <- metaMDS(dune) # use ordipointlabel -# here is an example where I added cex according to species frequencies:pl...
A Wrapper Function for Instant Package Installation / Loading
Since library() and require() only accept input with length(input) = 1 it is necessary to make repeated calls - this can be quite annoying.. So, HERE is a little wrapper function for convenient package installation / loading. It installs packages if th...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
