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Animal orientation with IMU tags

Derivations of formulas for estimating pitch, roll, and heading of an animal from a tag with an accelerometer and magnetometer.

rphylopic challenge

A data visualization challenge that uses rphylopic to add animal silhouettes to ggplot figures.

Customizing ggplot components

ggplot commands are good for 99% of figure customizations, but sometimes you need to edit individual plot components manually. Here’s how.

A simple project organization workflow

soft skills; RStudio; GitHub

Keeping code, data, and manuscripts organized is a notorious challenge for scientists. This workflow will get you started with some early project organization wins that help…

Customizing ggplot legend keys

For when you want e.g. small points on the plot but large keys in the legend

Why Quarto?

Use quarto documents for reproducible analyses, science communication, and more!

Renewing a GitHub PAT

What to do when your GitHub personal access token (PAT) expires.

Python and R together with reticulate

Intro to reticulate lesson for SCRUBs

Uploading data to OSF in R

reproducibility

I’m learning to navigate the Open Science Framework (OSF), but ran into issues uploading a directory to my project. Here’s how I did it in R.