Latest Posts

In this post, I show you how to navigate some common ecological data portals and discuss when you might want to use one or another for accessing data that you can use for practice or your next research project.

This blog post I teach you the basics of creating and customizing scatterplots in R

Learn about the four challenges when learning R and the key strategies for how to overcome those challenges so that nothing can stop you from mastering R

In this tutorial, I go over the basics of how to prototype, save, and export your plots from R.

In this blog post, I show you how to reshape data (i.e. how to use pivot tables) so that the data are in the correct form for data analysis in R.

In this tutorial, I’m going to explain how to create your own functions and provide a few examples.

In this blog post, we deconstruct the anatomy of how to use ‘ggplot2’— a package that makes it intuitive to create consistently nice-looking figures in R.

In this tutorial I show you everything you need to know about boxplots and how to make them look nice using the built-in functions in R

Here I describe the functions called grep(), grepl(), and sub(), which allow you to find strings in your data that match particular patterns.

In this tutorial, we’re introduce the structures that R provides to help you organize your data.