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Code and data for upcoming workshop in R targeted for paleoecologists

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paleo-R-workshop

Code and data for upcoming workshop in R targeted for paleoecologists. You can clone this repository, or if you don't use git, you can click "Clone or download" button, choose down zip, then extract the zipped folder to reasonable place on your computer.

Please feel free to use or remix - and submit pull requests with improvements!

Intended schedule

(1) Data & folders

(2) Working directories, multiple computers, and reading in data

(3) Data validation basics

(4) Simple data visualisations

(5) Multivariate analysis - ordination & clustering

(6) More complex data viz (including multivariate)

(7) Saving figures, tables & output

(8) Age depth models by Michelle

We intend to hold this workshop in March/April 2018. TBC.

Extra references, links to good things

  • Jenny Bryan's slides on organising files with better names.

  • Many ways to organise folders (we'll touch on this) but here's one example

  • Data Carpentry (& Software Carpentry - both fantastic!) have some lessons, including on sorting out your data to make it easier to include in R. They also have a good R lesson if interested.

  • My tutorials on plotting ordinations: basic here, ordisurf in ggplot here and what everyone needs, 3D hulls 😍 here.

  • More comprehensive teaching materials from the UC seminar series.

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