Category Archives: Sweave

To Sweave, or not to Sweave, that is the question

I am about to start writing up the manuscript of my recent biomath seminar (Act 3: Pineda-Krch. 2011. Cycles at the edge of existence: Emergence of quasi-cycles in strongly destabilized ecosystems.). While the slides for the talk were put together using … Continue reading

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The Joy of R: A Feline Guide

Just because it’s caturday Images by Mario Pineda-Krch (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) This is from the “Mario’s Entangled Bank” blog ( http://pineda-krch.com ) of Mario Pineda-Krch, a theoretical biologist at the University of Alberta.

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Cycles in finite populations: A reproducible seminar in three acts

For this years Halloween I presented the mathematical biology seminar at the Centre for Mathematical Biology. Here is the title and the abstract… Cycles in finite populations: a reproducible seminar in three acts Many natural populations exhibit cyclic fluctuations. Explaining the underlying … Continue reading

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Open Access(ish) contribution: Cycles in finite populations: a reproducible seminar in three acts

It’s Open Access week and this is what the hoopla is all about “Open Access” to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need … Continue reading

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The Joy of Sweave – A Beginner’s Guide to Reproducible Research with Sweave

Just wrapped up the slides for the first version of the The Joy of Sweave – A Beginner’s Guide to Reproducible Research with Sweave which I presented today in our lab. I am making the slides available under a Creative Commons … Continue reading

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Top 10 things that suck about Sweave

People rave about Sweave and the literate programing paradigm and I am guilty as charged. I speak Sweave, I think Sweave, I dream Sweave. As a matter of fact my default mode of operation is Sweave and anything else is an … Continue reading

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