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  • Publications
    • Climate-sensitive forecasts of marked short-term and long-term changes in the distributions or abundances of Northwestern boreal landbirds
    • Climate-sensitive forecasts of marked short-term and long-term changes in the distributions or abundances of Northwestern boreal landbirds
    • Will this umbrella leak? A caribou umbrella index for boreal landbird conservation
    • Climate-informed forecasts reveal dramatic local habitat shifts and population uncertainty for northern boreal caribou
    • Empowering ecological modellers with a PERFICT workflow: Seamlessly linking data, parameterisation, prediction, validation and visualisation
    • Managing forest carbon and landscape capacities
    • Predictive Ecology: a re-imagined foundation and the tools for ecological models
    • Assessing the pathways of climate change effects in SpaDES: an application with boreal landbirds in Northwestern Canada
    • The R toolbox grainscape for modelling and visualizing landscape connectivity using spatially explicit networks
    • NetLogoR: A package to build and run spatially explicit agent-based models in R
    • State-dependent domicile leaving rates in Anopheles gambiae
    • On the evolution of omnivory in a community context
    • To tree or not to tree: The role of energy limitation on host tree acceptance in a bark beetle
    • Individual host selection decisions and population-level responses in a time- and energy-limited forager, Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins
    • Estimating colony and breeding population size for nocturnal burrow-nesting seabirds
    • A Theoretical Approach to Study the Evolution of Aggregation Behavior by Larval Codling Moth, Cydia pomonella (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)
    • A dynamic host selection model for mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins
  • Posts
    • Using the latest GDAL with R packages on macOS - redux
    • Yes, The Queen is listed as an 'author' on our R packages
    • Using the latest GDAL with R packages on macOS
    • meow: the most anticipated R package of 2015
    • Installing rgdal on OSX
    • Essential software for biology grad students: Part III Writing Tools
    • Essential software for biology grad students: Part II Backups and Version Control
    • Essential software for biology grad students: Part I Overview
    • more on journal abbreviations in Mendeley
    • website updates
    • enabling Libre/OpenOffice plugin for Mendeley 1.5
    • list of abbreviated journal names
    • Abbreviated Journal Names in Mendeley [updated]
    • Easily make custom Mendeley citation styles
    • Finding Symbol Commands for LaTeX
    • Constructing Pedigrees in R
    • Custom Citation Styles in Mendeley
    • Exploring Population Dynamics Models using a GUI for R
  • Recent & Upcoming Talks
    • Cumulative effects research in SpaDES
    • Data to decisions: a multispecies approach case study for Northwest Territories
    • Predicting caribou resource selection and demography under landscape and climate change
    • Best Practices Working With Spatial Data in R
    • Facing the tree-slayer: forecasting Mountain Pine Beetle spatial spread in SpaDES
    • Integrating fire disturbance with models of mountain pine beetle spread to evaluate efficacy of controlled burns as a management tool
    • Testimony before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Natural Resources Forest Pests
    • Cumulative Impacts Monitoring Program (CIMP) SpaDES Workshop
    • LandWeb: Exploring NRV in the Western Canadian Boreal Forest
    • Building R packages - Getting started and best practices
    • Simulating MPB invasive spread control in Saskatchewan using SpaDES
    • Predictive ecology in a world filled with dynamic data and models – entering continuous adaptive management
    • Incorporating changing climate in ecological models: feedbacks, trade-offs and surprises! OR How do we influence decision makers?
    • Boreal insect disturbance in SpaDES: an integrated simulation model of mountain pine beetle eastward spread
    • Cumulative effects simulation and modern scientific forecasts: challenges and opportunities
    • Boreal insect disturbance in SpaDES: an integrated simulation model of mountain pine beetle eastward spread
    • Building a continuous adaptive management system in SpaDES: dialing down the risk for woodland caribou
    • Building a continuous adaptive management system in SpaDES: using historical landscape variation for the LandWeb project
    • Burning in SpaDES: Automated parameter estimation for landscape fire models
    • Vegetation dynamics in SpaDES: the recoded LANDIS-II biomass succession model
    • Simulating MPB invasive spread control in Saskatchewan using SpaDES
    • Simulating MPB invasive spread control in Saskatchewan using SpaDES
    • Incorporating changing climate in ecological models: feedback, reversals and surprises abound!
    • Getting to answers, in SpaDES
    • Evolution of Decision Support for Forest Ecosystem Management: Towards Open Modelling and Data
    • The SpaDES platform: : Modern scientific forecasts, backcasts, and decisions
    • SpaDES: Spatial Discrete Event Simulation
    • Drosophila suzukii in a D. suzukii world: Humidity decreases density dependent competition
    • On the evolution of omnivory in a community context
    • Enhancing Students' Understanding of Biological Concepts by Engaging Them in Research
    • On the evolution of omnivory in a community context
    • Evolution of omnivory in a community context
    • To tree or not to tree: energy and time limited habitat settlement decisions in bark beetles
    • Can selfish genes help prevent pest outbreaks?
    • State dependent problems for arthropods
    • Energy reserves modulate host acceptance decisions in mountain pine beetles
    • Mountain pine beetle condition and timing of emergence: who emerges when
    • Mountain pine beetle condition and timing of emergence: who emerges when
    • An individual model of host selection for mountain pine beetle
    • 'I'll have the steak special, with a side salad': exploring the evolution of omnivory
    • Beetles pine for lodgepole homes: mountain pine beetle's search for a host
    • Using game theory to evaluate host acceptance decisions in mountain pine beetle
  • Projects
    • Habitat Connectivity
    • Boreal forest ecosystem forecasts
    • Eruptive Insect Dynamics
    • LandWeb: historic range of variation in western boreal forests
    • Simulating mountain pine beetle eastward spread

Building R packages - Getting started and best practices

May 11, 2018·
Alex M Chubaty
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Slides Project
Abstract
I’ll be showing how to build and test your first R package. We’ll discuss best practices and how to prepare for submission to CRAN or use with GitHub.
Location

Calgary, AB

talks
Last updated on May 11, 2018
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