UC Merced -
Spring 2023

Data Science Research Biology: An intro to programming with R for ecology and evolution

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Exercises

R

Topic Title Output
Capstone Length of Floods
Expressions & Variables Basic Expressions
Expressions & Variables Basic Variables
Expressions & Variables Modify the Code
Expressions & Variables More Variables
Expressions & Variables Variable Names
Expressions & Variables Variable Reassignment
Functions Built-in Functions
Functions Combining Functions
Functions The general form of a formula
Functions A function for the Portal data set
Functions Use and Modify Functions
Functions Writing Functions
Loops Basic For Loops
Loops Multi-file Analysis
Loops A Data Set of Dinosaur Lengths
Loops Size Estimates By Name Loop
Loops Calculating the mass of a bunch of dinosaurs
Loops Conditioning on length
Practice logical & conditional statements Choice Operators
Making Choices A function for the UHURU data set
Making Choices DNA or RNA
Making Choices DNA or RNA Iteration
Making Choices Handling one choice
Making Choices Handling 2 choices
Making Choices Handling 3 choices or more
Making Choices Value of y by age class
Making Choices Load or Download a File?
Making Choices Mass estimates by biological group
Making Choices Energy Conversion Challenge
Making Choices Energy Conversion Challenge
Vectors Basic Vectors
Vectors Bird Banding
Vectors Bird Banding Multiple Vectors
Vectors Nulls in Vectors
Vectors Shrub Volume Vectors
Data wrangling Data manipulation
Visualizing data The UHURU data set
Visualizing data Fitting models with multiple data sets
Visualizing data Removing outliers
Project Structure & manipulating data Manipulating data I
Visualizing data The UHURU data set
Data wrangling Data manipulation
Data wrangling Pipe practice
Data wrangling Piping placeholders
Data wrangling Data aggregation

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