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ODV figures in R with bathymetry

Nearly four years after writing a blog post about recreating R figures in ODV I had someone reach out to me expressing interest in adding a bathymetry layer over the…
May 21, 2021
Robert W Schlegel
7 min

Analysis of Bio-Oracle data

While running some brief quality control tests on Bio-Oracle layers before using them for a recent project it was detected that some of the layers in the current version of…
Jun 18, 2020
Robert W Schlegel
13 min

Downloading environmental data in R

Having been working in environmental science for several years now, entirely using R, I’ve come to greatly appreciate environmental data sources that are easy to access. If…
Feb 14, 2020
Robert W Schlegel
16 min

South Africa time survey

In South Africa there are a range of idioms for different time frames in which someone may (or may not) do something. The most common of these are: ‘now’, ‘just now’, and…
Jul 17, 2018
Robert W Schlegel
11 min

Transects

This week I have expanded the coastR package with the inclusion of a function that calculates the angle of the heading for alongshore or shore-normal transects. The rest of…
Dec 8, 2017
Robert W Schlegel
9 min

Polar plot climatologies

Whilst cruising about on Imgur I found a post about science stuff. Not uncommon, which is nice. These sorts of grab-bag posts about nothing in particular often include some…
Aug 23, 2017
Robert W Schlegel
10 min

Sequential sites

The rest of the blog post after this preface section is a copy of the vignette I’ve written for the first function in the new package I am developing: coastR. This package…
Aug 23, 2017
Robert W Schlegel
8 min

Mapping with ggplot2

There are many different things that require scientists to use programming languages (like R). Far too many to count here. There is however one common use amongst almost all…
Jul 17, 2017
Robert W Schlegel
15 min

Goats per capita

A few weeks ago for a post about the relationship between gender equality and GDP/ capita I found a nifty website that has a massive amount of census information for most…
Jul 10, 2017
Robert W Schlegel
5 min

Party immigration

As an immigrant myself, all of the talk of immigration to be found in main stream media outlets today makes me a bit nervous. Whereas most people that speak of the pro’s and…
Jul 3, 2017
Robert W Schlegel
9 min

ODV figures in R

With more and more scientists moving to open source software (i.e. R or Python) to perform their numerical analyses the opportunities for collaboration increase and we may…
Jun 26, 2017
Robert W Schlegel
9 min

Gender and GDP

Most people living in the Western World are very quick to extol the virtues of gender equality. There are however many places where this is not so. This then inevitably…
Jun 12, 2017
Robert W Schlegel
13 min

Wind Vector Time Series

As more and more physical scientists (e.g. oceanographers) move to R from other object oriented command line programming languages, such as Matlab, there will be more and…
Jun 12, 2017
Robert Schlegel
9 min

Religious sentiment

Before we begin, I would like to acknowledge that the framework for this analysis was adapted from a blogpost found on the wonderfully interesting R-bloggers website. The…
May 15, 2017
Robert W Schlegel
7 min
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