In the last post, we used the qualtRics ¹ package to import survey data directly from Qualtrics accounts.I often use Qualtrics for survey data collected via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, which is an automated system that connects online respondents to paid surveys.However, sometimes those data are not super useful because the quality of the data is poor.In the anonymous, large-scale market of online survey respondents, the financial

A new R-package, coder, has been developed, peer-reviewed by rOpenSci, accepted by CRAN, and published in a paper by the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS). In this blog post, I will explain why this package might be useful for (epidemiological/medical/health care related) research.Clinical mess Once upon a time, in countries not far from ours, there were MDs and nurses making up funny names for any diseases they encountered.

In this post I will explain the history behind BaseSet then a brief introduction to sets, followed by showing what you can do with BaseSet.Brief BaseSet history I study diseases to try to find what causes them at a research institute associated with an hospital.Thanks to recent technological advances we can analyze many things from a single patient’s sample.Having so much information available can be overwhelming, making it difficult to find

The grainchanger package provides functionality for data aggregation to a coarser resolution via moving-window or direct methods.Why do we need new methods for data aggregation? As landscape ecologists and macroecologists, we often need to aggregate data in order to harmonise datasets. In doing so, we often lose a lot of information about the spatial structure and environmental heterogeneity of data measured at finer resolution.

spatsoc is an R package written by Alec Robitaille, Quinn Webber and Eric Vander Wal of the Wildlife Evolutionary Ecology Lab (WEEL) at Memorial University of Newfoundland. It is the lab’s first R package and was recently accepted through the rOpenSci onboarding process with a big thanks to reviewers Priscilla Minotti and Filipe Teixeira, and editor Lincoln Mullen.