Nuts and Bolts: Examine invasiveness across phylogenetic tree

I had a nail. @rOpenSci had the hammer. Photo by Zorro.

The helpful folks over at rOpenSci have come up with exactly the tool I needed, exactly when I needed it.

Nuts and Bolts: Squishing columns together to get rid of NAs in R

Zipper picture from Wikimedia Commons, by Rabensteiner – Bearbeitet von Rainer Z

I found my self in a bit of a quandry. I had a data frame which contained many columns that needed to be squished together – each contained a few values, but mostly NAs, and none of the values were overlapping. They represented the same variable, but broken apart across several columns. I needed to condense several columns into one.

Nuts and Bolts: Extracting global climate and soil data in R

There are a few publicly available data sets that are useful for looking at the abiotic environments of specific locations.

A public dataset of global climate variables. From WorldClim.org.

Nuts and Bolts: Finding minima around a peak in R

So finding minima is apparently a really complex problem. But all I need is a consistent, non-subjective way to determine cut-offs around a peak. This is what I came up with, perhaps useful to you?

Nuts and Bolts: Modern maps of Eurasia in R

Maps are quite useful things, if you want to convey information about where in the world something happens. But, turns out, they are harder to make than I naively thought! But not that hard.