https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/animals/ Recent content in Animals on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Sat, 12 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/09/12/herring-units/ Sat, 12 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/09/12/herring-units/ The hex sticker is better than the package. tl;dr I made the tiny R package {cran} to convert volumes to an antiquated measurement of fish. Why? To test out the {units} package and to resolve a joke about the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN). {units} The {units} package by Edzer Pebesma, Thomas Mailund and James Hiebert (site, source, R Journal) helps you set and create units, convert between them and raise an error where that isn’t possible. https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/01/18/deer-collisions/ Fri, 18 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/01/18/deer-collisions/ Oh dear, roe deer (Marek Szczepanek, CC BY-SA 4.0) Open data Deer roam Scotland. So do humans. It’s a problem when they meet at high speed. The National Deer-Vehicle Collisions Project, administered by The Deer Initiative, has been monitoring data on deer-vehicle collisions in the UK. The data are open. I found the data set when skimming through data.gov.uk (a classic weekend activity for all the family). It links to the SNH Natural Spaces site where you can download the data as shapefile, GML or KML under the Open Government Licence. https://www.rostrum.blog/2018/04/27/two-dogs-in-toilet-elderly-lady-involved/ Fri, 27 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2018/04/27/two-dogs-in-toilet-elderly-lady-involved/ Matt Dray (@mattdray) Call the fire brigade. Oh wait, we’re fine. TL;DR Animals get stuck in weird places, just ask the London Fire Brigade. I used the sf package for handling some animal rescue spatial data prior to interactive mapping with leaflet. Scroll to the bottom to see the map. The problem Sometimes I work with eastings and northings coordinate data.