https://www.rforecology.com/authors/luka-negoita/Luka NegoitaWowchemy (https://wowchemy.com)en-us© HabitU Lab, LLC and R for Ecology 2026Mon, 14 Nov 2022 09:30:50 -0400https://www.rforecology.com/media/logo_hu79e4c31f2037bf5f26b941f1d8a66338_12106_300x300_fit_lanczos_2.pnghttps://www.rforecology.com/authors/luka-negoita/https://www.rforecology.com/post/scatterplots-in-r/Mon, 14 Nov 2022 09:30:50 -0400https://www.rforecology.com/post/scatterplots-in-r/This blog post I teach you the basics of creating and customizing scatterplots in Rhttps://www.rforecology.com/post/free-workshop-on-how-to-learn-r/Thu, 12 May 2022 09:30:50 -0400https://www.rforecology.com/post/free-workshop-on-how-to-learn-r/Learn about the four challenges when learning R and the key strategies for how to overcome those challenges so that nothing can stop you from mastering Rhttps://www.rforecology.com/post/exporting-plots-in-r/Thu, 05 May 2022 09:30:50 -0400https://www.rforecology.com/post/exporting-plots-in-r/In this tutorial, I go over the basics of how to prototype, save, and export your plots from R.https://www.rforecology.com/post/a-simple-introduction-to-ggplot2/Thu, 14 Apr 2022 09:20:07 -0400https://www.rforecology.com/post/a-simple-introduction-to-ggplot2/In this blog post, we deconstruct the anatomy of how to use ‘ggplot2’— a package that makes it intuitive to create consistently nice-looking figures in R.https://www.rforecology.com/post/2022-04-06-how-to-make-a-boxplot-in-r/Wed, 06 Apr 2022 11:46:53 -0400https://www.rforecology.com/post/2022-04-06-how-to-make-a-boxplot-in-r/In this tutorial I show you everything you need to know about boxplots and how to make them look nice using the built-in functions in Rhttps://www.rforecology.com/post/how-to-use-rmarkdown-part-two/Tue, 15 Feb 2022 10:45:39 +0000https://www.rforecology.com/post/how-to-use-rmarkdown-part-two/In part two of my series on R Markdown, I’ll go over how to use R Markdown for learning R by documenting your journey into your own guide to R.https://www.rforecology.com/post/how-to-use-rmarkdown-part-one/Wed, 09 Feb 2022 10:45:39 -0500https://www.rforecology.com/post/how-to-use-rmarkdown-part-one/R Markdown is a powerful method for creating reports that combine formatted text with R code. This can help you with accountability, data analysis reproducibility, for making tutorials (like this one), and also for learning R! In part one of this two-part series, you’ll learn how to create basic R Markdown documents with all the essential content.https://www.rforecology.com/post/the-basics-of-r-in-spanish/Wed, 19 Jan 2022 09:45:39 -0500https://www.rforecology.com/post/the-basics-of-r-in-spanish/My online course on the Basics of R (for ecologists) is soon to launch with a version completely recorded in Spanish.https://www.rforecology.com/post/how-to-install-r-and-rstudio/Sat, 01 Jan 2022 05:28:39 -0500https://www.rforecology.com/post/how-to-install-r-and-rstudio/The first step to learning R is to have it downloaded on your computer! In this blog post, I introduce R and RStudio and show you how to download and install them.https://www.rforecology.com/post/exporting-tables-from-r-to-microsoft-word/Tue, 23 Nov 2021 12:28:39 -0600https://www.rforecology.com/post/exporting-tables-from-r-to-microsoft-word/As scientists analyzing their data, we often have data or results in R that we want to export to a word processor for the reports or publications that we’re writing. In this tutorial I show you how to do just that!https://www.rforecology.com/post/intro-to-evolutionary-algorithms-with-r-for-beginners-from-scratch-part-1/Fri, 27 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.rforecology.com/post/intro-to-evolutionary-algorithms-with-r-for-beginners-from-scratch-part-1/Here I describe how evolutionary algorithms work by going through an example of fitting a basic linear model.https://www.rforecology.com/post/five-fun-things-you-can-do-with-r/Mon, 16 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.rforecology.com/post/five-fun-things-you-can-do-with-r/Here is the first installment of a series of posts on fun things that you can use R to do: from analyzing your google search history, to making Holiday cards and twitter bots. Enjoy!https://www.rforecology.com/post/how-to-make-a-quality-scatterplot-in-r/Fri, 06 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.rforecology.com/post/how-to-make-a-quality-scatterplot-in-r/Scatterplots are one of the most common types of data visualizations you will encounter as a biologist. Here I go over how to make quality scatterplots that are ready for publication.https://www.rforecology.com/post/myth-of-the-r-learning-curve/Mon, 26 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.rforecology.com/post/myth-of-the-r-learning-curve/Some thoughts about how the R curriculum could be improved.https://www.rforecology.com/post/the-essential-functions-of-r-cheatsheet/Mon, 19 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.rforecology.com/post/the-essential-functions-of-r-cheatsheet/This cheat sheet covers all the essential functions that will allow you to do at least 80% of all operations you will ever have to do in R as an ecologist.https://www.rforecology.com/post/how-to-do-simple-linear-regression-in-r/Fri, 09 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.rforecology.com/post/how-to-do-simple-linear-regression-in-r/I show you how to do a simple linear regression in R that models the relationship between two numeric variableshttps://www.rforecology.com/post/organizing-your-r-studio-projects/Mon, 05 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.rforecology.com/post/organizing-your-r-studio-projects/In this post I go over a basic method method for organizing your ecological data analysis projects in R.