R in Ecology

I’m a bit of an R nerd. Ok, that’s a lie; I’m a major R nerd. But for good reason, because R is incredibly useful in streamlining the scientific process, and increasing the ability to replicate findings with less human error.

The main reason that I often talk to my fellow graduate students about learning R is because of the near constant that a graduate student has to redo things; this even happens within science as a whole. If you spend an entire week using a GUI to run all of your models, then you present them to your advisor, and s/he tells you that you need to change “just one thing,” it will take you another week to do so. This is frustrating, to say the least, especially when it happens more than once.

http://blog.dominodatalab.com/r-in-ecology/

 

Raony Guimaraes