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AQP / soilDB Demo: Dueling Dendrograms

March 14, 2012 | dylan

Previously, soil profile comparison methods from the aqp package only took into account horizon-level attributes. As of last week the profile_compare() function can now accommodate horizon and site-level attributes. In other words, it is now possible t... [Read more...]

AQP Demo: Interfacing with PedonPC Databases using the ‘soilDB’ Package

January 12, 2012 | dylan

Here is a quick, draft demo on extracting soils data from a PedonPC database, and performing some common analysis with functions from AQP. The newly released soilDB package makes it possible to rapidly extract soils data from PedonPC, local NASIS, and ... [Read more...]

Logistic Power Peak (LPP) Simulated Soil Profiles

November 12, 2011 | dylan

A friend of mine recently published a very interesting article on the pedologic interpretation of asymetric peak functions fit to soil profile data (Myers et al., 2011). I won't bother summarizing or paraphrasing the article here, as the original artic... [Read more...]

Experimental S4 Classes and Methods added to AQP (Algorithms for Quantitative Pedology) Package

February 23, 2011 | dylan

Thanks to some help from Pierre Roudier, the aqp package now has some new S4-style classes and methods-- custom tailored to the complexities of soil profile data. These new classes/methods are only available in the aqp development branch, found on our ... [Read more...]

Updates to the ‘aqp’ Package for R (version 0.98-3)

November 30, 2010 | dylan

Just released an updated version of our 'aqp' package for quantitative soils investigations, available on CRAN and R-Forge. Some of the major changes are listed below: from the aqp NEWS file: -------------------------- aqp 0.98-1 (2010-11-23) --------... [Read more...]

AQP Examples: Profile Visualization

September 20, 2010 | dylan

Two examples of the output from the profile_plot() function, using data from the Sierra Foothill Region, CA. read more [Read more...]

New R Package ‘aqp’: Algorithms for Quantitative Pedology [updates]

August 9, 2010 | dylan

Soils are routinely sampled and characterized according to genetic horizons (layers), resulting in data that are associated with principal dimensions: location (x,y), depth (z), and property space (p). The high dimensionality and grouped nature...

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Estimating Missing Data with aregImpute() {R}

April 19, 2010 | dylan

Missing Data Soil scientists routinely sample, characterize, and summarize patterns in soil properties in space, with depth, and through time. Invariably, some samples will be lost or sufficient funds required for complete characterization can run out. In these cases the scientist is left with a data table that contains holes (... [Read more...]

Interesting use of levelplot() for time series data

January 16, 2010 | dylan

levelplot example: soil temperature (left) and moisture (right) Several recent articles appeared on the R-bloggers feed aggregator that demonstrated an interesting visualization of time series data using color. This style of visualization was readily adapted for the time series data I regularly collect (soil moisture and temperature), and quickly implemented ...

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New R-Forge Site for Quantitative Pedology

November 8, 2009 | dylan

Just back from the annual meetings, and it looks like there is a significant interest in collaborative R coding of soils-related algorithms and visualization. A new R-forge site has been created to host Algorithms for Quantitative Pedology. Public release of the 'soil' package should be ready in a couple weeks. ... [Read more...]

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