Monthly Archives: January 2013

Desman

Desman: Pyrenean (Galemys pyrenaicus) and Russian (Desmana moschata) desmans are aquatic relatives of moles and bizarre, bizarre critters. Just look at them!

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R number generation

On her blog, Christina Bergey has previously alluded to our discussions about number generation. I am posting my solution here, not because it is the best solution, but because it shows how R code can be written into Unix scripts … Continue reading

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Cephalopods

Recently, I attended a talk by my colleague Mike Montague with the Warren Lab at the Genome Institute at Washington University in which he presented several ongoing projects, including the sequencing of cephalopod genomes. Cephalopods include octopus, squid, and cuttlefish … Continue reading

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R calculator in Terminal

Until recently, the Mac Calculator app was on my Dock (Mac’s version of a Start menu). It bugged me tremendously that an entire slot was occupied by a program much harder to use than my 15 year-old TI-34 scientific calculator. … Continue reading

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