{"id":57961,"date":"2014-08-18T10:04:16","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T17:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=57961"},"modified":"2014-08-18T10:04:16","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T17:04:16","slug":"r-and-other-new-things-to-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=57961","title":{"rendered":"R and other new things to try"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past couple weeks we here at the BLM CO State Office have finished up several species monitoring for the year including the<em> Astragalus osterhoutii<\/em>,<em> Penstemon penlandii<\/em>,<em>\u00a0 Eutrema penlandii<\/em>,<em> Physaria congesta<\/em>,<em> Physaria obcordata<\/em>, and<em> Penstemon grahamii<\/em>. \u00a0Traveling to the Kremmling, CO area then to the mountains near Fairplay to monitor the little arctic mustard, and finally out to Meeker, CO and almost to the Utah-Colorado border to Rangely, CO. \u00a0With all of the travel we came back to the state office to input the many pages of monitoring data to start the analysis and make any changes needed for next year (adding transects or if we are lucky get to remove a few and still get the same amount of certainty in the change of the populations or we can continue with the same number of transects which is just as good). \u00a0Along with the simple functions that we utilize in Microsoft Excel to show the necessary analysis of the monitoring data we are going to try and learn to use R and then hope to apply it to some of our monitoring data as well as the data we collected in the Modified Whittaker Plots in the alpine to create species area curves. \u00a0We will see what the learning curve is for R, I do have a little knowledge of C++ so if any of the programming I learned for C++ can be applied to R that would be great. \u00a0I have a feeling I am going to be learning a whole new syntax of programming and the crossover from C++ to R might be minimal at best but I will find out. \u00a0Since we are not specifically trying to create new programs, and just trying to call existing programs and functions to analyze our data that the learning curve will be acceptable to utilize the program. \u00a0Along with this new challenge we are continuing with our sensitive species monitoring with <em>Phacelia formosula<\/em>\u00a0and <em>Eriogonum pelinophilum<\/em> coming up soon and then implementing the new monitoring protocol for\u00a0<em>Corispermum navicula<\/em>\u00a0sometime later. \u00a0While we are up in North Park for the Phacelia sp. monitoring we will assess the Corispermum sp site and the current stage of the species to better determine when the monitoring should take place to ensure that the best representation of the population is monitored. \u00a0In between all of this we might also be helping out Vail Botanic Gardens in a few seed collections. \u00a0Fun Stuff to come here in Colorado!!<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<\/p>\n<p>Nathan Redecker<\/p>\n<p>Lakewood, CO<\/p>\n<p>BLM Colorado State Office<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past couple weeks we here at the BLM CO State Office have finished up several species monitoring for the year including the Astragalus osterhoutii, Penstemon penlandii,\u00a0 Eutrema penlandii, Physaria congesta, Physaria obcordata, and Penstemon grahamii. \u00a0Traveling to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=57961\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2484,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2484"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57961"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57974,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57961\/revisions\/57974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}