5 years of blogging

It's been 5 years… Since this website went live. In fact, with 2020 I didn't notice and it's even closer to 6 years now! To celebrate I gave the site a modern makeover so it doesn't look like it was stuck in the early 2010s. Let's look at some stats. Sadly WordPress doesn't let you …

Measuring the mammalian diving reflex with Apple Watch

I like ecophysiology, data and R. This blog post is a niche intersection between those three interests and I like that. There are two functions of this post1 To try out the RWordPress package for publishing Rmarkdown directly to WordPress Since you are reading this, it worked! (Not really - images are troublesome, I had …

Links about teaching statistics for biologists

Updated 27/11/20 Teaching statistics has vastly improved from my undergraduate days (and that wasn't that long ago) in terms of accessible online material and pedagogy. As an undergraduate I would have appreciated some easy to follow readings that weren't technical replies on StackExchange. We teach introductory stats theory and coding in R to a general …

A workaround for group labels on faceted ggplots

I recently had to beautify some figures for a publication.  The graph in question was a faceted plot made using the standard ggplot2 function facet_grid(). I prefer to do all my graph editing in R rather than a vector image software and facet_grid() and its partner facet_wrap() are useful functions for presenting graphs of factors …

Using icons with rmarkdown

Last year, I added icons to my GitHub website. I built that website in R using the static site generator in the rmarkdown package but I hadn't thought to include icons when I taught myself how to make a website. Icons are freely available from different open source icon websites. rmarkdown supports three of them …