meow: the most anticipated R package of 2015
In preparing a presentation on developing R packages using RStudio for the Victoria R Users Meetup Group this month, organizer Kiri Whan and I put together a very simple demo R package.
UPDATE 2015/02/09: I didn’t notice the conflict with the package name; thanks Scott Chamberlain for pointing it out. I’ve renamed the package to meow and updated the links below.
From the README at https://github.com/achubaty/meow:
meow: Get random pictures of cats.
This package doesn’t do much, but it’s adorable:
Use meow() to fetch a random cat photo from http://thecatapi.com plot it in yor R session. Meow!
Installation
devtools::install_github("achubaty/meow")
Reporting Bugs
Dr. Chubaty is an ecologist, simulation modeller, and co-developer of the
open source SpaDES simulation platform. He completed his PhD at Simon
Fraser University modelling host selection in mountain pine beetle (MPB),
and postdoctoral research at Université Laval and Natural Resources Canada
developing forecasting models of MPB spread.
He currently operates FOR-CAST Research & Analytics in Calgary, Canada, which supports the development and integration of models simulating forest vegetation dynamics, wildfire, insect disturbance, and wildlife populations to inform decision making for land management and species at risk. He is an advocate for open source, open data, and reproducible workflows.