Thursday

  • Finish and post core notes from yesterday.
  • Debugging locale problem in phylo packages = success.  Emmanuel has already patched drop.fossils() in the ape package, will see if Gieger and TreeSim try to handle locale issue directly too.  Problem in comparisons:
> Sys.setlocale(locale = "") # default locale using UTF8
 # message deleted
 > "-1" > 0
 [1] TRUE
 > Sys.setlocale(locale = "C")
 # message deleted
 > "-1" > 0
 [1] FALSE
  • Posted MCMCMC notes from algorithms.
  • Hastings Meeting 10-10:30
  • Wainwright lab meeting 2-3p: Chris discusses Cameroon Cichlids and evidence for sympatric speciation. Also can measure age/stress/fitness by rings on fish scales. wow.
  • Hastings lab meeting 3-4p: Matt discusses transition to policy from science. Sandy Liebhold joins us for the chat.
  • Catch up on reading. Get better at citing reading in notebook for reference.
Today’s reading
  • Heather’s column in_ Nature_ (Piwowar et. al. 2011), and more details and longer full-text on her blog.
  • MCMCMC reference, Geyer, C.J. Practical markov chain monte carlo. Statistical Science 7, 473-483(1992).

References