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The team at rOpenSci and I have been working on a wrapper for the USA National Phenology Network API. The following is a demo of some of the current possibilities. We will have more functions down the road. Get the publicly available code, and contribu...

Have you ever wanted to search and fetch barcode data from Bold Systems?I am developing functions to interface with Bold from R. I just started, but hopefully folks will find it useful.The code is at Github here. The two functions are still very buggy,...

The Public Libraries of Science (PLOS) has an API so that developers can create cool tools to access their data (including full text papers!!).Carl Boettiger at UC Davis and I are working on R functions that use the PLoS API. See our code on Githu...

Usually, we're content to use a pseudo-random number generator. But sometimes we may want numbers that are actually random-- an example might be for randomizing treatment status in a randomized controlled trial.The site Random.org provides truly rando...

The colossus of bioinformatics meetings, ISMB, convened in Boston this year from July 9 – 13. As in recent years, the meeting was covered online at its website, FriendFeed and Twitter. I thought it would be fun to run a quick analysis of activity at the FriendFeed room using R. 1. Fetch the data ...

I was prompted by a thread on the apparent decline of FriendFeed to look for evidence of declining participation in my networks. First, a quick and dirty Ruby script, tls.rb to grab the Life Scientists feed and count the likes and comments: #!/usr/bin/ruby require 'rubygems' require 'json/...