(This article was first published on dylan's blog, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)
OK, not really science or soil-related, but a fun 5 minute use of R to make something you can use to improve your hand-eye coordination.
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Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).