A collection of fortunes from the R community.

Robust analysis using forward search in linear and generalized linear regression models, as described in Atkinson, A.C. and Riani, M. (2000), Robust Diagnostic Regression Analysis, First Edition. New York: Springer.

Anonymized data from surveys conducted by Forwards <https://forwards.github.io/>, the R Foundation task force on women and other under-represented groups. Currently, a single data set of responses to a survey of attendees at useR! 2016 <https://www.r-project.org/useR-2016/>, the R user conference held at Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA, June 27 - June 30 2016.

A set of analytical tools useful in analysing ecological and geographical data sets, both ancient and modern. The package includes functions for estimating species richness (Chao 1 and 2, ACE, ICE, Jacknife), shared species/beta diversity, species area curves and geographic distances and areas.

Functions to automate the detection and resolution of taxonomic and stratigraphic errors in fossil occurrence datasets. Functions were developed using data from the Paleobiology Database.

Simulating and plotting taxonomy and fossil data on phylogenetic trees under mechanistic
    models of speciation, preservation and sampling.

A shiny application based on 'FossilSim'. Used for simulating
    tree, taxonomic and fossil data under mechanistic models of speciation,
    preservation and sampling.

A tool to use a principal component analysis on radially averaged
  two dimensional Fourier spectra to characterize image texture. The method
  within the context of ecology was first described by Couteron et al. (2005)
  <doi:10.1111/j.1365-2664.2005.01097.x> and expanded upon by
  Solorzano et al. (2018) <doi:10.1117/1.JRS.12.036006>
  using a moving window approach.

Interface to 'Palantir Foundry', including
    reading and writing structured or unstructured datasets, and more
    <https://www.palantir.com/platforms/foundry/>.

The four-gamete test is based on the infinite-sites model which assumes that the probability of the same mutation occurring twice (recurrent or parallel mutations) and the probability of a mutation back to the original state (reverse mutations) are close to zero. Without these types of mutations, the only explanation for observing the four dilocus genotypes (example below) is recombination (Hudson and Kaplan 1985, Genetics 111:147-164). Thus, the presence of all four gametes is also called phylogenetic incompatibility.