Notes

Thursday

  • Reading through Andrew’s manuscript
  • Working on RNeXML checks / travis continuous integration. Completing documentation, updating unit tests to reflect recent API changes.
  • Difficulty getting taxize dependency to pass travis check. Needed these lines in travis:
- sudo apt-get install gdal-bin libgdal1 libgdal1-dev netcdf-bin libproj-dev 
- ./travis-tool.sh install_aptget gdal-bin
  • Interview with Nature Careers journalist Amanda, discussing open notebook and open science developments

Friday

  • Finish up RNeXML checks / travis integration. Yay, passing check now.
  • Integrate unit test suite into R CMD CHECK / travis checks. Updated a few unit tests and bugfixes for simmap, everything passing now.

  • Difficulty getting rrdf on travis, see r-travis/issues/104

  • Interview with Science journalist Chris on open science and lab notebook technology.
  • Interview with Sci American Susan journalist on tipping points, early warning signals.

  • See NAP report on Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change: Anticipating Suprises