Teaching

targets for ecologists

A hands-on example of using the `{targets}` R package, written for ecologists.

Workflow management with drake

A workshop lesson covering workflow management with `drake` and a brief introduction to functions in R.

Blog posts

A collection of links to blog posts I've written for Washington State University's R Working Group.

A quick-start guide to the `caret` R package

Background The caret R package has been a staple of machine learning (ML) methods in R for a long time. The name caret stands for “Classification and Regression Training” according to the authors.

Examples of using regular expressions in R

In this post I’ll be walking through some basic examples of regex, or regular expressions, and also providing a couple real-world examples. To quote Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund (2017), regex is a “language that allow[s] you to describe patterns in strings.