Articles by jonathanscallahan

MazamaSpatialUtils R package

December 3, 2020 | jonathanscallahan

Version 0.7 of the MazamaSpatialUtils is now available on CRAN and includes an expanded suite of spatial datasets with even greater cleanup and harmonization than in previous versions. If your work involves environmental monitoring of any kind, this package may be of use. Here is the description: A suite of conversion ...
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When is a number not a number?

November 3, 2020 | jonathanscallahan

Have you ever asked yourself whether your telephone number is really a number?  It’s got numbers in it but does it measure anything? How about your credit card number?  PO Box?  Social Security Number?  Zip code? What would happen if you subtracted one of these from another? As it ... [Read more...]

Standard Latitudes and Longitudes

October 14, 2020 | jonathanscallahan

What?  Where?  When? These are key questions that every scientist or other collector of environmental data must answer. What is the value of the thing we are measuring? Where are we taking the measurement? When are we taking…Read more of Standard Latitudes and Longitudes →
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Easier Error Handling in R with try()

October 9, 2020 | jonathanscallahan

In a previous post, we looked at error handling in R with the tryCatch() function and how this could be used to write Java style try-catch-finally blocks. This time we’ll look at what can be done…Read more of Easier Error Handling in R with try() → [Read more...]

Basic Error Handing in R with tryCatch()

October 8, 2020 | jonathanscallahan

The R language definition section on Exception Handling describes a very few basics about exceptions in R but is of little use to anyone trying to write robust code that can recover gracefully in the face of…Read more of Basic Error Handing in R with tryCatch() → [Read more...]

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