Hi all! Some time ago, I was studying an article from Tamara Münkemüller et al. 2015: "Phylogenetic niche conservatism – common pitfalls and ways forward". It´s a nice study where the ability of current tools in order to identify the evolutionary model that drives the changes in a trait (...

In the R post, we will present how to create your own color palettes and how to work with other palettes such as RColorBrewer, wesanderson and hex codes from www.colorcombos.com for exciting color palettes.

Imagine you work in a large factory that produces complicated widgets. It is your job to control production line settings which must be reset each day so as to ensure the smooth operation of the factory. However, to change the settings you have to walk around turning dials and pressing ...

Using R and last.fm I make some beautiful plots to understand how my music listening habits have changed since 2005. As it turns out I stopped listening to metal after high-school and I really like John Mayer, amongst other interesting things. 

In a previous entry, we talked about the meaning and importance of isolating confounding variables. This entry is dedicated to the residuals and its relation to the variable of interest when controlling for some confounding factors.Let's think about ed...

I recently published my first R package to The Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN). It was very exciting and also quite easy. Let me walk you through my process. First a description of my brand new package: badgecreatr, then a description of steps to take for submission. Package description When ...

I recently published my first R package to The Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN). It was very exciting and also quite easy. Let me walk you through my process. First a description of my brand new package: badgecreatr, then a description of steps to take for submission. Package description When ...

This post was first published on my Linkedin page and posted here as a contributed post. In the last few months, I have had several people contact me about their enthusiasm for venturing into the world of data science and using Machine Learning (ML) techniques to probe statistical regularities and ...

With this post I would like to talk again about R-Bridge, which allows a direct communication between ArcGIS and R.In the previous post, I presented a very simple application of R-Bridge where I built a toolbox to perform k-means clustering on point shapefiles. The purpose of that post was ...

With this post I would like to talk again about R-Bridge, which allows a direct communication between ArcGIS and R.In the previous post, I presented a very simple application of R-Bridge where I built a toolbox to perform k-means clustering on point sh...

Data science goes professional: On November 2 and 3, the [R] Kenntnis-Tage 2016 offer valuable insights into diverse application examples of the programming language R to users, developers, administrators and IT decision makers. Now the program has been released. In the age of Internet of Things, data has long become the new currency ...