Resources

There are many resources online and in print. This is by no means a comprehensive list, but hopefully a launching pad for some very useful website and books. All of these examples provide code in same shape or form.

Datasets

This is a list of most of the data sources used in this course.

From The Portal Project Teaching Database
- Portal_rodents_19772002_scinameUUIDs.csv [raw trapping data]
- species.csv [species id metadata]
- surveys.csv [trapping data by record id]
- surveys_complete.csv [cleaned trapping data by record id]
- combined.csv [trapping data merged with record id metadata]
- plots.csv [plot type metadata]
From Data Carpentry: Genomics Lesson
- sequencing_results_metadata.txt [metadata from DNA sequencing]
From Data Carpentry: R for Data Analysis and Visualization of Ecological Data
- survey_data_spreadsheet_messy.xls [example of untidy data]
From Software Carpentry: R for Reproducible Scientific Analysis
- continents.RDA [gapminder continent-level data]
- wide_eg.csv [blood albumin levels]
- stocks.tsv [restaurant stock data]
- gapminder.csv [country characteristics by year]
From ANGUS: Analyzing High Throughput Sequencing Data
- rnaseq.zip [zipped folder of RNA sequence data]
From Data wRangling for Ecologists
- 2001_mauna_loa_met_data.zip [raw meteorological station data from Mauna Loa]
- 2001 Mauna Loa meteorological station data [tidy format of minute-scale meteorological data from Mauna Loa Observatory]
- solinst temp/stage logger data (full) [pressure transducer data logger data from NF American River]
- solinst A [partial pressure transducer data logger data from NF American River]
- solinst B [partial pressure transducer data logger data from NF American River]
- solinst 2015

Presentations

Quantitative Courses

This is a list of quantitative courses commonly taken by students in the Graduate Group in Ecology at UC Davis. For those of you taking the course in person, these are classes you may end up taking in the future that will put your new R skills to use.