Resources

Summary

This unit of the workshop introduces a variety of resources that are of relevance to palaeobiological analyses and palaeontologists more broadly. The slides for the unit are available here and provide an overview to these commonly used resources, along with links to relevant websites and other content. This acts as both a summary of the resources mentioned in the other Units, as well as including additional resources which may be of interest.

This session is led by Christopher Dean. If you encounter any issues while working with these resources, please contact him here. Additionally, our aim is to expand upon this content to make it a more widely available resource; if you have any resources that you use that you think might be helpful to others, please let Chris know and he will add them to the list.

Tutorial Content

Tutorial slides

Resources Content

Data Acquisition

These resources cover the acquisition of data for palaeontological analyses, including occurrence datasets and covariate/associated data.

Occurrence Databases

Other Relevant Datasets

Macrostrat
Mindat
USGS Geological Maps of North America
Global Maximum Green Vegetation Fraction
1km Resolution Global Digital Elevation Map
WorldClim - can be accessed via the ‘getData’ function of the ‘raster’ package.
ESA WorldCover

Palaeogeographies

Other places to find datasets

Zenodo

Relevant Packages

Data Preparation

These resources cover the preparation of data for palaeontological analyses, including data cleaning, organisation and transformation.

General Packages

Palaeontological Packages

Data Visualisation

These resources cover the various ways in which data can be visualised, from theoretical, practical and ethical angles.

General Resources

Packages

ggplot2
lattice
scatterplot3d
highcharter
plotly
Rgl
viridis
RColorBrewer
wesanderson
colorspace
ggsci

Writing Functions

R and function development

Style and Documentation

Testing

Environment

Efficiency