Resources

Links to resources of interest to NMFS R UG members

NMFS GH organizations

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See the NMFS Open Science page for a list of various GitHub orgs used by groups at NMFS.

Training materials for R

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There are many many online R resources. These are some that NMFS R users have found particular helpful or R courses that were developed by NMFS or other federal agencies.

• R Consortium YouTube Channel many lectures on R topics.
• HappyGitwR
• GAMS in R
• Data Visualizations, mostly in R USGS GitHub org that has many examples of data visualizations.
• Lots of environmental data examples in R Click on “PREVIOUS SESSIONS” to go to tutorials.
• USGS R Training courses
• West Coast Region R course

Training materials for Python

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• Visualations and Dashboards in Python
• NASA EarthData webinars Many of these are Python examples and include links to the repos.

General

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• NOAA Center for AI Training and Resources

NOAA specific packages

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• rnoaa An R interface to many NOAA data sources: climate data, ocean data, weather data, etc.
• crawl An R package that provides analytical tools for estimating the movement paths of animals from telemetry data.
• uswebr RMarkdown template based on the U.S. Web Design Standards. Example of output.

Recommended general packages

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• {tidyverse}
• {ggplot2}
• {styler} Style your code using the styler add-in for RStudio
• {distill} Distill for R Markdown is a web publishing format optimized for scientific and technical communication. Distill articles include: math, citations, footnotes, multiple ways to output content (website, blog, article).

Other Open Science Efforts in Government

• GitHub in the US federal agencies GitHub is widely used by US federal agencies and scientists to deliver products and collaborate. This wiki links to some of those efforts.
• NASA EarthData
• USGS R