Today I’m extremely happy because I’ve finally been able to fulfil a dream of mine. And yes, by the end of this blogpost you might be worried about me for having such a weird, niche and, frankly, dumb dream, but I swear I’m fine! My dream was ...

Say you have data measured at different weather stations, which in Argentina might look something like this estaciones[data, on = c("nombre" = "station")] |__ ggplot(aes(lon, lat)) + geom_point(aes(color = t)) + geom_...

An important part of a scientific project, such as a journal paper or a PhD thesis, is accessing datasets. To keep things reproducible datasets should be accessible, either provided in the repository itself or in a remote location. Also for reproduc...

I started to use R full time for my research about 5 years ago when I started working on my Masters’ thesis and up until today there was one thing missing: proper contour labels. Now, thanks to the wonderful isoband package, I finally got what I wi...

For my PhD I’m currently writing a paper using rmarkdown. Since I care about reproducibility, I’m using renv to register the versions of the R packages I use and to manage a local library that doesn’t affect the rest of my system. With that, anyone who wants ...

My girlfriend and I are watching Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG). The first season it’s pretty lame, but it gets better further down the line. That piqued my curiosity – is that impression shared by the rest of The Internets? So I decided to d...

Some time ago, someone I follow on twitter posted about having to buy a whole book with rules to tease out grammatical gender in German. Further down the replies, someone reminisced about trying (and failing) to learn German just by listening to Rammstein’s lyrics. I studied about drei Jahre ...

Some time ago, someone I follow on twitter posted about having to buy a whole book with rules to tease out grammatical gender in German. Further down the replies, someone reminisced about trying (and failing) to learn German just by listening to Rammstein’s lyrics. I studied about drei Jahre ...

I’ve been an R user for a few years now and the data.table package has been my staple package for most of it. In this post I wanted to talk about why almost every script and RMarkdown report I write start with:

library(data.table)

My memory issues I started ...

I’ve been an R user for a few years now and the data.table package has been my staple package for most of it. In this post I wanted to talk about why almost every script and RMarkdown report I write start with: library(data.table) My memory issues ...

For my research I needed to download gridded weather data from ERA-Interim, which is a big dataset generated by the ECMWF. Getting long term data through their website is very time consuming and requires a lot of clicks. Thankfuly, I came accross th...

For my research I needed to download gridded weather data from ERA-Interim, which is a big dataset generated by the ECMWF. Getting long term data through their website is very time consuming and requires a lot of clicks. Thankfuly, I came accross the nifty ecmwfr R package that allowed me ...

Summary The metamer package implements Matejka and Fitzmaurice (2017) algorithm for generating datasets with distinct appearance but identical statistical properties. I propose to call them “metamers” as an analogy with the colorimetry concept. Metamers in vision This is not a prism separating white light into its component wavelengths. It is an ...

tl;dr: The functionality shown in this post is now on the ggnewscale package! ????. You can find the original code in this gist. A somewhat common annoyance for some ggplot2 users is the lack of support for multiple colour and fill scales. Perusing StackOverflow you can find many questions relating ...

As an atmospheric scientists, a lot of my research consists on plotting and looking at global fields of atmospheric variables like pressure, temperature and the like. Since our planet is a sphere (well, almost), it is unbound and so longitude is a periodic dimension. That is, to the right of 180°...