Author Archives: kchiou

R number generation

Posted on January 7, 2013 by kchiou

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

Posted on January 6, 2013 by kchiou

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

Posted on January 5, 2013 by kchiou

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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Impala

Posted on December 30, 2012 by kchiou

The impala: a common antelope but with tremendous grace and speed and one of my favorite African mammals.

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Central American primate distributions

Posted on December 26, 2012 by kchiou

I was recently cleaning out files on my computer when I stumbled across some maps that I had created two years ago for a class presentation. These maps show the species distributions for all Central American primates, and they are … Continue reading →

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