R Lessons

Resources

RSeek R-centric search engine

Handy Tandy Tutorials Home-grown tutorials

Tidy Models The belly of the beast with great tutorials.

Tidy Modeling with R The original with really good slow-it-down-and-understand tutorials.

TidySDM Tidy modeling with spatial data (that's us!)

Geocomputation with R An excellent modern guide to working with spatial data.

Syllabus

1. Intro to R, RStudio and basic plotting

2. Loading and plotting environmental data (1D and 2D)

   • Extract data for points
   • Extract and plot a time series?

3. Loading and plotting OBIS data (choose your species)

   • Select species, use R OBIS to fetch
   • Exploration and plotting of fetched data
   • Consider biases: spatial, seasonal, interannual

4. Extract environmental data

   • For observations
   • For background
   • Are variables colinear?

5. Model tuning / fitting & interpretation

   • Algorithm choice (one or many)
   • Skill metrics
   • K-folds
   • Response curves
   • Contribution of covariates

6. Make a prediction / projection

   • Nowcast
   • 2055 RCP 4.5
   • 2075 RCP 4.5
   • 2055 RCP 8.5
   • 2075 RCP 8.5