Example R applications

This example looks at whether global climate trends show up in local weather variables.

R is used here to examine trends in mean temperature and the correlation structure of the data.

Analysis of poplar tree growth (native black poplars Populus nigra betulifolia) in relation to planting method.

Scripts in R for modelling and presentation of results are available (on desktop or laptop).

The abundance of common herbaceous plants has been estimated on a study plot at Hillside House.

The study plot is being managed to encourage wildflower species diversity.

The purpose of this work is to monitor progress and success of these management methods.

This is an example of GIS and map data analysis.

The interactive chloropleth maps depict the variation in agrochemical usage among EU countries, as presented by Antier et al 2020.

Webalizer is a standard tool for collecting website traffic data.

Data collected by Webalizer can easily be summarised using R.

Website traffic for two subdomains shows a general trend upwards.

Various “free” antivirus applications are available. Most users will understand that this kind of software is not really entirely free and that they pay indirectly by supplying their data (e.g. in the form of their web browsing activity).

This study used the amazing Wireshark to investigate data connections with and without AVG Antivirus Free on a Windows machine.

This is a working example of an R script to call a routine written in a compiled language (in this case, Fortran).

The example is a simple implementation of the Sieve of Eratosthenes to find prime numbers.