Resources, software and data

Resources

McMaster R users’ list info/subscription page (“A list for general help and discussion among R users at McMaster”) – intended as a friendly/low-stress channel for people to ask R questions of the campus community
Bio data lunch mailing list (weekly lunchtime group discussions of specific data analysis problems)
Notes on running R on HPC, especially Compute Canada

Software

I write a lot of software in R. Here are some R packages.

package	purpose	other authors	download percentile on CRAN	total downloads
lme4	mixed models	Doug Bates, Martin Maechler	99.5	28.4M
broom.mixed	“tidy” summaries of mixed models		96.8	618.1K
glmmTMB	mixed models	Mollie Brooks, Kasper Kristensen	96.6	974.6K
bbmle	maximum likelihood estimation		96.5	1.0M
emdbook	utilities for “Ecological Models and Data in R”		95.5	446.4K
R2admb	R interface to AD Model Builder		88.2	137.4K
cpcbp	common principal components analysis and size correction
mixstock	analysis of “mixed stocks” (biological populations)
epigrowthfit	epidemic growth curve estimation
McMasterPandemic	epidemic model calibration and forecasting	Steve Walker and others
fitode	general purpose ODE fitting via sensitivity equations	Daniel Park
celebrate	goofy sound effects for statistical summaries
glmmadmb	GLMMs with AD Model Builder
cricketr	assessing stopping rules in cricket	Ahsan Batti

“Other authors” only includes authors who contributed significantly more to the package than I did. Check out the DESCRIPTION files or help(package="whatever") for the full lists of authors and contributors.
Package ranks and download counts computed as of 19 Aug 2023. (These metrics differ in order because packages have been on CRAN for different lengths of time.)

Data and miscellaneous

code for spatial moment equations
measles data
workshop notes and materials from workshops before the Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease (2005, 2008-2012)