Articles by Bluecology blog

Fast functions with pipes

December 28, 2020 | Bluecology blog

Fast functions with pipes Pipes are becoming popular R syntax, because they help make code more readable and can speed up coding. You can even use pipes to create functions. This is handy if you want to repeat a piped process for several different dat... [Read more...]

R workshops in Brisbane 2021

October 25, 2020 | Bluecology blog

R workshops in Brisbane 2021 Our annual series of popular R workshops is on again between 5th and 12th February 2021, in person at the University of Queensland. Over the past 5 years we’ve successfully trained hundreds of academics, researchers and s... [Read more...]

Universal inference in R

July 8, 2020 | Bluecology blog

Universal inference in R When we perform a statistical test we’d like to have confidence what the Type I error rate is what we say it is (rate of false positive findings). Often scientists choose a rate (AKA ‘alpha’) of 0.05 for rejecting the nu... [Read more...]

Time sinks for data wrangling

April 30, 2020 | Bluecology blog

Time sinks for data wrangling Estimating the time it will take to complete a project is an important part of being a successful PhD student, researcher or consultant. A major time sink on many analytical projects is data wrangling. Often the wranglin... [Read more...]

Three ways to calculate distances in R

February 7, 2020 | Bluecology blog

Three ways to calculate distances in R Calculating a distance on a map sounds straightforward, but it can be confusing how many different ways there are to do this in R. This complexity arises because there are different ways of defining ‘distance?... [Read more...]
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