I just returned from the Genome Informatics meeting at Cold Spring Harbor. This was, hands down, the best scientific conference I've been to in years. The quality of the talks and posters was excellent, and it was great meeting in person many...
I just returned from the Genome Informatics meeting at Cold Spring Harbor. This was, hands down, the best scientific conference I've been to in years. The quality of the talks and posters was excellent, and it was great meeting in person many...
The problemI was looking for a way to compile an RMarkdown document and have the filename of the resulting PDF or HTML document contain the name of the input data that it processed. That is, if I compiled the analysis.Rmd file, where in that file it di...
I forgot where I originally found the code to do this, but I recently had to dig it out again to remind myself how to draw two different y axes on the same plot to show the values of two different features of the data. This is somewhat distinct from th...
At our most recent R user group meeting we were delighted to have presentations from Mark Lawson and Steve Hoang, both bioinformaticians at Hemoshear. All of the code used in both demos is in our Meetup’s GitHub repo.Making heatmaps in RSteve started...
Anscombe’s quartet comprises four datasets that have nearly identical simple statistical properties, yet appear very different when graphed. Each dataset consists of eleven (x,y) points. They were constructed in 1973 by the statistician Francis Ansco...
Current Opinion in Microbiology recently published a special issue in genomics. In an excellent editorial overview, “Genomics: The era of genomically-enabled microbiology”, Neil Hall and Jay Hinton give an overview of the state of the field in micr...
Current Opinion in Microbiology recently published a special issue in genomics. In an excellent editorial overview, “Genomics: The era of genomically-enabled microbiology”, Neil Hall and Jay Hinton give an overview of the state of the field in micr...
Joanna Zhao’s and Jenny Bryan’s R graph catalog is meant to be a complement to the physical book, Creating More Effective Graphs, but it’s a really nice gallery in its own right. The catalog shows a series of different data visualizations, all ma...
I have a noteworthy blogs tag on this blog that I sort of forgot about, and haven't used in years. But I started reading one recently that's definitely qualified for the distinction.The Microbiome Digest is written by Elisabeth Bik, a scienti...
I recently learned about the microbenchmark package while browsing through Hadley’s advanced R programming book. I’ve done some quick benchmarking using system.time() in a for loop and taking the average, but the microbenchmark function in the micr...
