Thank you very much Tom.

Manuel

El jue., 18 jun. 2020 a las 12:05, Philippi, Tom (<tom_phili...@nps.gov>)
escribió:

> Many ecological journals either encourage or require that the dataset
> behind a paper be submitted to a repository such as dryad, or included as
> an electronic appendix.  Even if your university does not have
> institutional subscription to all journals, some journals like Ecosphere
> are open-access, many journals allow authors to pay to make their papers
> open-access, and some journals with paywall papers allow free access to the
> abstract and the supplements including datasets or links to the datasets in
> repositories.  That has an advantage of letting you work from a topic or
> form of data for your teaching to find suitable datasets.  Also, those
> datasets tend to be cleaned and documented and close to ready for the
> analyses, as they were used in the analyses in the publications.
>
> The rdryad package from rOpenSci (on CRAN) has the ability to search
> dryad, but I suspect that search works better with ecological keywords than
> statistical ones.
>
> Tom
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: R-sig-ecology <r-sig-ecology-boun...@r-project.org> On Behalf Of
> Rich Shepard
> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2020 10:38 AM
> To: r-sig-ecology@r-project.org
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [R-sig-eco] Ecological datasets for teaching
> statistics
>
> On Thu, 18 Jun 2020, Manuel Spínola wrote:
>
> > I teach statistics to students in ecology and environmental sciences
> > fields and I would like to know if you could point me in the right
> > direction of sources of ecological/environmental datasets within and
> > outside packages, especially for general/generalized linear models and
> > multivariate statistics.
>
> Manuel,
>
> Ecology, and it's applied focus Environmental science, are very broad.
> I've been working with these data for several decades so I need to ask what
> types of data you want.
>
> I don't know what's available from Costa Rican agencies but I do know that
> in the US you can get geochemical, biological, hydrologidal, and other data
> from the US Geological Survay, Environmental Protection Agency (if they've
> not removed them), Department of Agriculture's Forest Service and Natural
> Resources Conservation Service.
>
> You can also look at StreamNet run by the Pacific States Marine Fisheries
> Council, The Army Corps of Engineers for hydraulic, flow, and sediment
> transport data.
>
> That's a start.
>
> Rich
>
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