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Comment on Is this fish crazy? by Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:49:54 +0000

That is an amazing fish.

Comment on FishBASE from R by Thursday – Carl Boettiger

Thursday – Carl Boettiger — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:07:26 +0000

[...] parsing example to Scott essentially see (fishbase example , and xpath tutoral [...]

Comment on FishBASE from R by cboettig

cboettig — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:44:33 +0000

Thanks. In case you're interested, I've made this an R package, now on the CRAN repository, with a little demo.

Comment on FishBASE from R by garry jolley-rogers

garry jolley-rogers — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:37:23 +0000

Nice one Carl. Thinking about whether the same can be done with ALA. Should be easier given their webservices etc

Comment on Bigger eyes at high latitudes by Dale

Dale — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 03:28:48 +0000

Interesting comment, Maxine, as I am also from the Southern US, and often hear women and girls here described as having “large doe eyes.” It would seem the author indeed was speaking more globally regarding Northern and Southern regions. This would lead one to think of the Southern US as being a bit more centrally located in that regard, meaning higher light levels. Like you, just thinking out loud, but it also seems I hear lots of guys described as having “beady eyes,” i.e., smaller eyes, which fits the theory above. The “large doe eyes” of the females here does not seem to fit. Intriguing point you made about how the co-mingling of populations may have impacted things.

Comment on FishBASE from R by cboettig

cboettig — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 01:07:28 +0000

Thanks for the heads up, that’s great news. looking forward to it.

Comment on FishBASE from R by Jeroen Steenbeek

Jeroen Steenbeek — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 01:05:06 +0000

You may be interested to hear that there are efforts under way to raise funds for extending FishBase with web services. Direct, query based, digital access to FishBase data without the clumsy need for a browser – R will love it.

Comment on Bigger eyes at high latitudes by Maxine

Maxine — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 20:16:43 +0000

Fascinating study especially what appears to be a direct correlation between populations in the far North and South and their exposure to lower light levels, and larger eye size to improve light sensitivity! I’d be curious to know about other factors such as populations from other geographic regions with smaller eyes settling in and co-mingling with the larger eyed population and what affect that would have genetically on the eyes of those in the far North and South geographic regions. I’m just thinking “out loud” here, I’m not a scientist but I find this study very interesting as I’m from the Southern part of the US (though I’m sure you’re speaking more on a world geography when you mention Northern and Southern regions above) and have often been told that I have “large” eyes!

Comment on Red lionfish: stunning and invasive by Red lionfish: stunning and invasive | Christopher E. Oufiero

Red lionfish: stunning and invasive | Christopher E. Oufiero — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:52:01 +0000

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Comment on FishBASE from R by FishBASE from R: some XML parsing – Carl Boettiger

FishBASE from R: some XML parsing – Carl Boettiger — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:57:12 +0000

[...] cross-posted from Wainwright Lab blog, archiving in the notebook here. This early tutorial includes some background on XML parsing from R using XPath. See the later rfishbase tutorial for more functionality. [...]