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Home - rforscience
At the NIOZ Department of Estuarine & Delta Systems in Yerseke, we use R as the problem solving environment for our visualisation, statistical analysis, our scientific computing and environmental mode...
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R-packages - rforscience
R-packages
R is so appropriate as a scientific tool because the base software can easily be extended by means of user-made packages.
To allow using R for our work, a lot of new packages were developed...
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Modelling - rforscience
Modelling
Modelling
In order to make sense of the data, we often use mathematical models. As for every scientific problem we try to use the most appropriate mathematical description, we develop and u...
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Teaching - rforscience
Teaching
Teaching
Our interaction with master and PhD students tells whether we are able to convey our knowledge in scientific computing to non-professionals. This is quite a challenge, as many of ou...
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Visualisation - rforscience
Visualisation
Visualisation
R is very strong in scientific visualisation. Karline Soetaert contributed to R’s visualisation capabilities by two types of packages:
The packages shape and ...
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Data - rforscience
Data
Data
It is tradition in Oceanography to put monitoring data into large relational databases. This is a safe way to archive data in a consistent way, but it requires a lot of work to extract the ...