we are happy to announce that mapview 1.0.0 has been released on CRAN. Together with Florian Detsch (R, Rcpp), Christoph Reudenbach (js) and Stefan Woellauer (js) we have put together a powerful tool for on-the-fly mapping of spatial data during … Continue reading → [Read more...]

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Just a few quick lines today to announce an update to the remote package (1.0.0 now on CRAN) We have uploaded a first major release of remote to CRAN a couple of weeks ago. Most relevant changes are: bottleneck functions … Continue reading → [Read more...]

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If you have used Reot before and tried to install it from CRAN recently, you may have noticed the following message: Warning in install.packages : package ‘Reot’ is not available (for R version 3.0.2) This is because the Reot package … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Today, I would like to quickly introduce our package “Rsenal”. It is basically a collection of R functions that we use in our daily lives at Environmental Informatics Marburg. The package is hosted at GitHub and can be installed using … Continue reading → [Read more...]

We are happy to introduce Reot, an R package designed for empirical orthogonal teleconnection (EOT) analysis of gridded geo-scientific space-time data based on the method by van den Dool et al. (2000). EOT denotes a regression-based approach to decompose spatio-temporal … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Here's a quick update to metvurst in response to some issues encountered over the last weeks. The most important change is that the strip() function now returns the plot object rather than printing it. This means that we can work … Continue reading → [Read more...]

As part of a one-day workshop, I have developped an online tutorial on how to create publication quality graphics using R (from an academic point of view). The tutorial can […] [Read more...]

Inspired by a post on PirateGrunt, I finally managed to pack metvurst up and turn it into a proper R-Package (the fact that I’m on holiday and have some time also helped). As a side-effect of this, the repository has been moved from … Continue reading → [Read more...]

I am a big fan of lattice/latticeExtra. In fact, nearly all visualisations I have produced so far make use of this great package. The possibilities for customisation are endless and the amount of flexibility it provides is especially valuable for … Continue reading → [Read more...]

In this post I want to highlight the second core function of the metvurst repository (https://github.com/tim-salabim/metvurst): The windContours function It is intended to provide a compact overview of the wind field climatology at a location and plots wind direction and … Continue reading → [Read more...]

It is Sunday, it's raining and I have a few hours to spend before I am invited for lunch at my parents place. Hence, I thought I'd use the time to produce another post. It has been a while since … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Recently, I have been doing some analysis for a project I am involved in. In particular, I was interested what role pacific sea surface temperatures play with regard to rainfall in East Africa. I spare you the details as I … Continue reading → [Read more...]

OK, so the scenario is as follows: we have a list of 2 elements which in turn are again lists with 2 elements (each of which is a data frame). None of the elements in question carry names (neither the … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Inspired by a post on PirateGrunt, I finally managed to pack metvurst up and turn it into a proper R-Package (the fact that I'm on holiday and have some time also helped). As a side-effect of this, the repository has been moved from google code to G... [Read more...]

I am a big fan of lattice/latticeExtra. In fact, nearly all visualisations I have produced so far make use of this great package. The possibilities for customisation are endless and the amount of flexibility it provides is especially valuable for produ... [Read more...]

In his recent post 100 most read R posts for 2012 (stats from R-bloggers) – big data, visualization, data manipulation, and other languages Tal Galili - the guy behind R-Bloggers - presents his wishlist for 2013. Among other things he states &ldquo... [Read more...]