We just released version 2.2.0 of the volcalc package made in collaboration with Dr. Laura Meredith (SNRE). The volcalc package allows R users to estimate volatility of molecules using functional groups (Meredith et al. 2023). This new vers…
YouTubeMastodonEmailRequest to join our mailing list We respectfully acknowledge the University of Arizona is on the land and territories of Indigenous peoples. Today, Arizona is home to 22 federally recognized tribes, with Tucson being hom…
The Communications & Cyber Technologies Data Science team received some unfortunate news that we are losing our institutional funding at the end of April. We learned about this change at the end of March, which is due to institutional-wide
The fifth iteration of our fall workshop series “Reproducibility and Data Science in R” wrapped up earlier this month, culminating for the first time ever in a Reproducibility Colloquium. We had a wonderful group of learners this year from
Jetstream2 is a free on-demand cloud computing resource service led by Indiana University and available through ACCESS allocations. The power of HPC (High-Performance Computing) is available to more people by making it easy to create and ru…
Having a lab handbook—a document that conveys group ethos, expectations, policies and procedures—can go a long way to improving equity and productivity in a lab group (Tendler et al. 2023). The format of such a handbook can be as simple as
Model summary plots exploring trends in abundance over time for different species of rodents associated with the Portal Project. Data from the Portal Project teaching database via the ratdat R package (Ernest et al 2023). Model summary plot…
When I first started at CCT, our group procedures (e.g. onboarding/offboarding, meeting structures, policies, etc.) were housed in an OSF wiki. This was great because pages were simple markdown and were easily editable on the web (as long a…
This three-part series will teach you the skills to refine & expand your current ggplot2 skills so you can generate complex, publication-quality plots efficiently and reproducibly. We will cover: 1) the latest developments in and underpinni…
R is a powerful tool for data wrangling, but can slow down or outright crash if your dataset exhausts your available computer memory. This workshop will cover new tools that will let you continue to use familiar data wrangling tools in R wi…
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In this workshop, build a functional, installable R package and learn the fundamentals of what is involved in taking your package to the next level by submitting it to a repository like CRAN. YouTubeMastodonEmailRequest to join our mailing