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SpaDES Workshop planning for Nov 2024 begins

Workshop
Final arrangements have been made and dates have been settled!
Oct 29, 2024
Eliot McIntire

 

SpaDES Workshop Book Improvements

Workshop
Training
As promised, we have now incorporated many notes from our June workshop into the “training book” Robust and nimble scientific workflows, using SpaDES, and fixed a few…
Jul 3, 2024
Ceres Barros

 

SpaDES Workshop - Post-workshop survey

Workshop
Thank you once again to all who participated in the Robust and nimble scientific workflows, using SpaDES workshop in June 11-13, 2024.
Jul 3, 2024
Ceres Barros

 

Our transition to terra from raster

R
spatial
We have been asked multiple times how we are “dealing with the transition from raster to terra”. The answer is, somewhat painfully and more slowly than we had hoped for.
Jul 3, 2024
Ceres Barros

 

SpaDES Workshop Agenda added

Workshop
Registration is now closed for the SpaDES workshop in June 11 - 13, 2024, and the outline of the agenda has been posted.
Jun 7, 2024
Ceres Barros

 

SpaDES Workshop confirmation

Workshop
Dates and format finalized for Workshop Jun 11 - 13, 2024!
May 8, 2024
Eliot McIntire

 

SpaDES Workshop planning for June 2024 begins

Workshop
Survey sent out for planning for SpaDES Workshop.
Apr 17, 2024
Eliot McIntire

 

PhD position in Ecological Modelling: drought impacts on British Columbia’s forests

R
LandR
PhD project
drought
climate change
dynamic modelling
The interior forests of British Columbia (BC) are at particular risk from changes in drought regimes accompanying climate changes. Several tree species in interior BC may…
Sep 8, 2023
Ceres Barros

 

Research Associate Job: Forecasting land use changes due to resource development to improve boreal caribou conservation

R
SpaDES
Research Associate
Anthropogenic Disturbance
caribou
Northern ecosystems in Canada are changing at a rate twice as fast as other areas of the globe due to climate change. Climate change can result in direct effects on wildlife…
Jun 14, 2022
Eliot McIntire

 

POST-DOC OPPORTUNITY: Forecasting land use changes due to resource development to improve boreal caribou conservation

R
SpaDES
Postdoc
Anthropogenic Disturbance
caribou
Northern ecosystems in Canada are changing at a rate twice as fast as other areas of the globe due to climate change. Climate change can result in direct effects on wildlife…
Jul 14, 2021
Eliot McIntire

 

SpaDES packages archived on CRAN

R
SpaDES
Apologies to anyone trying to install reproducible, NetLogoR, and any SpaDES packages from CRAN. We had one of our dependencies (reproducible) temporarily archived, but we…
May 25, 2021
Alex Chubaty

 

Post-Doc Opportunity In Northern Ecosystem Forecasting

Northwestern Canada is one of the most rapidly warming regions on Earth. The scale and rapidity of recently observed warming-induced changes indicate that this region is…
Aug 20, 2020
Eliot McIntire

 

do.call and alist: a perfect match

It has been a while between posts. So, lets dive in with a simple, but technical, one.
Aug 17, 2020
Eliot McIntire

 

Working with SpaDES modules and Rstudio projects

A previous post discussed how to manage large SpaDES projects, and suggested the following project directory structure:
Aug 16, 2018
Alex Chubaty

 

Managing large SpaDES projects

A recent discussion on the SpaDES users forum brought up the question of how to manage projects that rely on multiple SpaDES modules. This question came up in the context of…
Jun 14, 2018
Alex Chubaty

 

New package NetLogoR now on CRAN

R
NetLogoR
SpaDES
v0.3.1 is now available on CRAN.
Feb 6, 2018
Sarah Bauduin

 

SpaDES v2.0.1 now on CRAN

R
SpaDES
v2.0.1 is now available on CRAN.
Jan 31, 2018
Alex Chubaty and Eliot McIntire

 

SpaDES v2.0.0 now on CRAN

R
SpaDES
v2.0.0 is now available on CRAN.
Sep 5, 2017
Alex Chubaty and Eliot McIntire

Postdoc Opportunity - Mixed Severity Fire Modeling in the Rocky Mountain Foothills (Reposted)

Postdoc
position
ad
ecology
fire
modeling
ecological modeling
We are seeking a landscape ecologist or ecological modeller to lead the development of a mixed severity fire regime simulation model that will permit spatial forecasting of…
Nov 17, 2016
Eliot McIntire

Delivering scientific forecasts into the hands of policy makers

App for science
leaflet
R
decision support
natural language processing
Empirical data have a troublesome way of being both factually true, yet difficult to understand because they exist within a complex web of even more data. Worse, forecasting…
Nov 17, 2016
Eliot McIntire, Alex Chubaty, Céline Boisvenue, Darcie Booth, Shannon Bradey, Elizabeth Campbell, Barry Cooke, David Price, Werner Kurz, Cindy Shaw

 

How do I end a simulation based on some condition other than time?

SpaDES
modules
SpaDES simulations typically start and end at a pre-specified times. So how do you end a simulation based on some other stopping criteria, such as when some variable reaches…
Nov 7, 2016
Alex Chubaty

 

Rmarkdown in a scientific workflow

Using Rmarkdown with Rstudio and for all stages of my scientific projects has been a remarkable shift in how my work gets done! There are so many advantages to this type of…
Oct 21, 2016
Alex Chubaty

 

Introduction to SpaDES Workshop (updated)

SpaDES
workshop
raster
Alex Chubaty and I will be leading a 2nd introductory SpaDES workshop this fall. This will essentially be the same course as the one offered in September, 2016.
Oct 15, 2016
Eliot McIntire, Alex Chubaty

 

SpaDES v1.3.1 now on CRAN

R
SpaDES
v1.3.1 is now available on CRAN.
Oct 7, 2016
Alex Chubaty and Eliot McIntire

 

Introduction to SpaDES Workshop (updated)

SpaDES
workshop
raster
Updated September 9, 2016
Aug 9, 2016
Eliot McIntire, Alex Chubaty

 

How to start using Compute Canada cluster with R and SpaDES.

supercomputer
HPC
Grex
Simulation
R
Is your R script taking too long? Do you find yourself rerunning things over and over? Are you using loops or lapply and think that these are slowing you down? In many…
Jul 4, 2016
Eliot McIntire

 

SpaDES v1.2.0 now on CRAN

R
SpaDES
v1.2.0 is now available on CRAN.
Jun 24, 2016
Alex Chubaty and Eliot McIntire

 

PhD Opportunity in spatial simulation of caribou landscapes in the Northwest Territories.

PhD position
Fire
Caribou
Simulation
R
As part of a multidisciplinary study of vegetation, fire and permafrost dynamics, the successful applicant will develop spatial simulation models to forecast the abundance…
Apr 20, 2016
Eliot McIntire

 

SpaDES v1.1.4 now on CRAN

R
SpaDES
v1.1.4 is now available on CRAN!
Apr 20, 2016
Alex Chubaty and Eliot McIntire

 

SpaDES v1.1.3 now on CRAN

R
SpaDES
v1.1.3 is now available on CRAN!
Apr 18, 2016
Alex Chubaty and Eliot McIntire

 

SpaDES v1.1.2 now on CRAN

R
SpaDES
v1.1.2 is now available on CRAN!
Apr 13, 2016
Alex Chubaty and Eliot McIntire

 

Removing spaghetti from ecological models

SpaDES
modules
modularity
sketch
Modularity requires a rethink for many people about how to build dependencies between models. Historically, ecological models were built as a single, large entity.…
Mar 9, 2016
Eliot McIntire

 

SpaDES as a musical conductor

SpaDES
modules
conductor
What is SpaDES? Powerful tools sometimes don’t lead to easy explanations of how they work. I recently got a room full of foresters, government researchers and policy people…
Mar 9, 2016
Eliot McIntire

 

SpaDES as a playground

SpaDES
sketch
playground
Imagine a neighbourhood where the kids (scientists/ecological modelers) are all playing scattered all over. Some have backyard swings and slides, others don’t. They are…
Mar 9, 2016
Eliot McIntire

 

Translating the incompatible

SpaDES
modules
modularity
sketch
Continuing from previous post on modularity, the next issue, of course, is not every module will be compatible out of the box. If we continue with the example from last…
Mar 9, 2016
Eliot McIntire

 

SpaDES v1.1.1 now on CRAN

R
SpaDES
v1.1.1 is now available on CRAN!
Feb 16, 2016
Alex Chubaty and Eliot McIntire

 

How do I calculate summary statistics and report them in a simulation?

SpaDES
modules
Often, we want to calculate some summary statistics from an object, such as a the mean value of a map, and plot that as a graph, updated at some interval, so that we can see…
Feb 9, 2016
Eliot McIntire

 

SpaDES v1.1.0 now on CRAN

R
SpaDES
v1.1.0 is now available on CRAN!
Jan 26, 2016
Alex Chubaty and Eliot McIntire

 

Make a live publications page

Zotero
BibBase
Citations
Publications
Creating a live web page with your publications is now easy to do and there are many ways to do so. I will show one that uses Zotero and GitHub.
Jan 8, 2016
Eliot McIntire

R Web App Development, Deployment, and Distribution

R
Shiny
Kitematic
Docker
As R language is becoming popular among scientists to build simple we bapplication along simple integration with RShiny, R web applications are being created at a fast rate. …
Dec 8, 2015
Olivia Sung

 

Is R Fast Enough? - Part 4 - ‘Loops’

R
In part 4 of this series on benchmarking R, we’ll explore loops and a common alternative, vectorizing. This is probably the “biggest” issue making people think that R is a…
Sep 4, 2015
Eliot McIntire

 

fpCompare version 0.2.1 released

Version 0.2.1 of fpCompare has been released on CRAN
Sep 1, 2015
Alex Chubaty

 

Introducing SpaDES: R Package for Spatial Discrete Event Simulation

R
SpaDES
v1.0.1 is now available on CRAN!
Aug 10, 2015
Alex Chubaty and Eliot McIntire

 

Reliable comparison of floating point numbers in R

Version 0.2.0 of fpCompare has been released on CRAN
May 16, 2015
Alex Chubaty

 

Is R Fast Enough? - Part 4 - ‘Loops’

R
benchmark
In part 4 of this series on benchmarking R, we’ll explore loops and a common alternative, vectorizing. This is probably the “biggest” issue making people think that R is a…
May 12, 2015
Eliot McIntire

 

Is R Fast Enough? - Part 3 - ‘Fibonacci’

R
benchmark
In part 3 of this series on benchmarking R, it will be quick. Just the Fibonacci series. This is one that R gets a really bad reputation about. Because it is an iterative…
May 6, 2015
Eliot McIntire

 

Is R Fast Enough? - Part 2 - ‘Sorting’

R
benchmark
In part 2 of this series on benchmarking R, we’ll explore sorting. This has been a topic on numerous blogs, discussions and posts around the internet, including here: r-blogg…
Apr 28, 2015
Eliot McIntire

 

Installing R spatial packages

This guide will show you how to install a variety of packages used for analyzing spatial data in R. This is tested for R versions 3.1.2, 3.1.3, and 3.2.0; and for the…
Apr 24, 2015
Alex Chubaty

 

Is R Fast Enough? - Part 1 - ‘The Mean’

R
benchmark
There have been many people, including ourselves, who have asked, “Is R fast enough for simulation modeling?”. In other words, can R handle everything we throw at it for…
Apr 23, 2015
Eliot McIntire

 

New Webpage

website
Welcome! We are starting a new blog about predicting in ecology. There are many topics to cover as we are working through many of them currently. One of the key tools we use…
Apr 22, 2015
Eliot McIntire and Alex Chubaty
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