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Matt Wilkins' galacticEdTools package working in your browser
This repository is for running the R-based-based galacticEdTools package in a browser-based environment provided by MyBinder.org.
galacticEdTools is an open source R package by Matt Wilkins to support K-16 education and scicomm. The code was developed by Galactic Polymath Education Studio
See here for more about the package.
Matt Wilkins' galacticEdTools package working via the Binder system. With no need for the end user to install or set up anything.
For those who prefer to work in RStudio, use the following badge to launch the session directly into RStudio:
The galacticEdTools package will already be installed there, and you just need to load it into the session as usual.
You can run the orcas_chronogram_generator.R script as a test by opening the script orcas_chronogram_generator.R using File > Open File and selecting orcas_chronogram_generator.R from the list. Then when the script opens click in the panel showing it, highlight all the text in the panel, and then click Run in the upper right side of that panel. It will run and after a minute or so the plot will show up automatically in the lower right panel under the 'Plots' tab.
There are some scripts for making variations of 'cats' phylogenies provided as well.
The galacticEdTools package is under MIT license, see the license in the official repo here.
This repository is set up to make use of the binder service offered by MyBinder.org. See their site for more information about Binder.
Packages that had to be added are summarized here and listed in full here, with the exception of phylopic not being in the full list(?).
Using r-base 4.1 by placing - r-base=4.1 in the environment.yml, I got complaints about irkernel not matching and that it needs something between R 3.5 and 3.6. I found this suggest and that installed R version 4.0.5 (2021-03-31) -- "Shake and Throw", and most importantly, did not complain. Trying to specify r-base 4.1 and irkernel 1.2 didn't work later and so kept as R version 4.0.5.
When using RStudio, but not the R kernel in Jupyter, I saw an error that seemed identical to one reported here in relation to trying to bring in the datelife package. I added the start file with those suggested contents and that fixed it for me, too, as now running library(datelife) in RStudio works without an error.
For those who prefer to work in RStudio, use the following badge to launch the session directly into RStudio:
The galacticEdTools package will already be installed there, and you just need to load it into the session as usual.
You can run the orcas_chronogram_generator.R script as a test by opening the script orcas_chronogram_generator.R using File > Open File and selecting orcas_chronogram_generator.R from the list. Then when the script opens click in the panel showing it, highlight all the text in the panel, and then click Run in the upper right side of that panel. It will run and after a minute or so the plot will show up automatically in the lower right panel under the 'Plots' tab.
There are some scripts for making variations of 'cats' phylogenies provided as well.