I’ve recently been exploring a survey dataset that is in French. I found a python library googletrans that uses the Google Translate Ajax API to translate text.

So I’ve just started working with Google Apps Script.

Recently I have been working with maps - trying to understand where all my samples are coming from. To do this I wanted to plot my sampling locations on top of a map. After fiddling with a number of different ways to get maps in R, I have happily fallen upon the OpenStreetMap package.

We’ve all been stuck waiting for a for loop to finish, or a particularly complex function. Over the years I have come across a few revelations when it comes to tracking the progress of my R code. Here they are in the order I found them!

I’ve created a new R function called spreadPoints, in my basicPlotteR package.

A couple of weeks ago my good friend Steven McGee Callender planned a hiking trip in the Arrochar Alps. He managed to get me, Amy Thompson and Justin Purefoy to join him. We selected Ben Vorlich as an achievable goal for an inexperienced crew. We parked up on the North West edge of Loch Lomond and set off on the route described here.

Today I’m going to write about creating an R package 📦. It’s very easy, and something I should have learnt a long time ago. Before I start, here are a couple of very good tutorials for creating an R package: Writing an R package from scratch Hadley Wickham’s R package documentation

Whilst I wait for a set of around sequences to be processed, I thought I would remind myself how to do multithreading in R.

Joanna and I are headed up to Northern Ireland today, Lydia (Joanna’s sister) is getting married. Today I was working on some Java code I wrote a few years ago to parse a Newick formatted phylogenetic tree. Whilst it is fresh in my mind, I thought I’d write a quick post - also the bus takes ages!! A phylogenetic tree, describing the ancestral relationships between a set of nucleotide sequences, can be stored can be stored in a Newick format. A detailed description of this format can be found here. The Newick format looks like this:

I finally decided to upgrade my work computer and build a new one! After spending loads of time reading and comparing (mostly using pcpartpicker until I landed on the following parts, which I bought from komplett: