Tag Archives: R

Gentle R – netCDF

Gentle R is a regular workshop run at the Australian Antarctic Division to assist those trying to develop skills in the statistical package R. In the next session Ben Raymond will discuss reading and processing environmental data from netCDF and similar … Continue reading

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Gentle R – Kernel Methods

Gentle R is a regular workshop run at the Australian Antarctic Division to assist those trying to develop skills in the statistical package R. In the next session Simon Wotherspoon will discuss kernel density estimation and kernel smoothing. It will be … Continue reading

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Maps in R

Often you want to display some data in its geographic context.  You can produce a range of simple maps in R with the maps and mapdata packages.

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Yeroon!

Don’t ask us – we don’t know what it means either.  But at http://yeroon.net/ggplot2/ you’ll find a wonderful graphical interface to Hadley Wickham’s ggplot2 package.  With ggplot you can very easily produce some very sophisticated plots, but there is a lot to learn and … Continue reading

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Lattice vs ggplot2

R has several systems for producing complex plots.  Two of the more sophisticated are lattice and ggplot2.  Lattice is documented in Deepayan Sarkar’s book Lattice: Multivariate Data Visualization with R; ggplot2 is based on the the concepts presented in The Grammar … Continue reading

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Gentle R – Survey Analysis

Gentle R is a regular workshop run at the Australian Antarctic Division to assist those trying to develop skills in the statistical package R. The next session will tackle basic survey techniques, and will be lead by Simon Wotherspoon.  It … Continue reading

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