Geomorph Version 2.0 Now Available!
Geomorph users,We have uploaded version 2.0 to CRAN. The windows and mac binaries have been compiled and the tarball is available.Version 2.0 comes with substantial changes and new features: New...
View ArticleGeomorph 3D Visualization
Dear geomorph users,version 2.0 of geomorph brings new developments in how shape deformations from 3D coordinate shape data can be viewed. We have implemented warping of 3D surface files (e.g., .ply...
View ArticleTips & Tricks 3: Ordering Datasets Alphabetically
Today's exercise is another nice and simple one, and allows you to get used to manipulating datasets in R.Exercise 3 - How to reorder the dataset alphabetically by specimen name.Say you have a 2D array...
View ArticleGeomorph 2.1 Now Available!
Geomorph users,We have uploaded version 2.1 to CRAN. The windows and mac binaries have been compiled and the tarball is available.Version 2.1 comes with some small changes and new features: Mike...
View ArticleFree Geometric Mophometrics - a Summary
I have seen a few questions floating around the interwebs recently from people starting up in morphometrics and wondering what is the best software to use. I am inspired by my fellow 3D expert Dr....
View ArticleTips & Tricks 4: Reading In Data Files
Today's exercise is another nice and simple one, and allows you to get used to manipulating datasets in R.Exercise 4 - How to read a file of coordinate data into R and make sure it is numeric.Reading...
View ArticleGeomorph update 2.1.1 now available!
Geomorph users,We have uploaded version 2.1.1 to CRAN. The windows and mac binaries have been compiled and the tarball is available.Version 2.1.1 contains small updates and fixes a few small bugs.New...
View ArticleGeomorph update 2.1.2 Now Available!
Geomorph users,We have uploaded version 2.1.2 to CRAN. The windows and mac binaries have been compiled and the tarball is available.Version 2.1.2 comes with some small changes and new features: New...
View ArticleTips & Tricks 5: Extracting Classifiers Using Substring
Today's exercise in another easy one, and is inspired by Ariel Marcy of the University of Queensland, who came up with the algorithm and co-wrote the code below.Exercise 5 - How to extract classifiers...
View ArticleGeomorph To Feature At SVP 2015
Calling Palaeontology-based Morphometricians,I am pleased to announce that myself, along with Aki Watanabe and Marc Jones will be leading a Symposium and associated workshop on Geometric Morphometrics...
View ArticleGeomorph update 2.1.3 Now Available!
Geomorph users,We have uploaded version 2.1.3 to CRAN. The windows and mac binaries have been compiled and the tarball is available.NOTE: Version 2.1.3 has a small bug in readland.tps()that...
View ArticleTips & Tricks 6: Exploring Data for Outliers
Geomorph users,A new function in geomorph 2.1.3 allows the user to explore Procrustes superimposed data for outliers (plotOutliers). Here I shall provide a few example for loops to demonstrate how you...
View ArticleInstalling Geomorph and R by Source
Since we started having a beta version of geomorph on GitHub, we understand that installation has become a little bit more complex. We were also aware of the issues for Mac Snow Leopard users.I have...
View ArticleTips & Tricks 7: Plotting PCA with TPS grids
Geomorph users,Our function plotTangentSpace() performs a Principal Components Analysis (PCA) of shape variation and plots two dimensions of tangent space for a set of Procrustes-aligned specimens and...
View ArticleNews So Far for Geomorph v2.1.4beta
Dear geomorph users,we have so far recognised and fixed the following bugs known to be in geomorph v.2.1.3 on CRAN, and these are available in the GitHub repository of v.2.1.4beta: BUG FIXES...
View ArticleGeomorph and Multivariate Datasets
Did you know that geomorph is not just for landmark-based geometric morphometric (shape) data?We are committed to providing statistical tools for multivariate AND multidimensional morphometric data.As...
View ArticleANOVAs and Geomorph
Within geomorph are several functions that perform analysis of variance (ANOVA),...
View ArticleTips & Tricks 8: Examining Replicate Error
Geomorph users,When starting out in a geometric morphometrics study, the common questions are ones of repeatability and measurement error.How much of the variation in the Procrustes residuals is due to...
View ArticleGeomorph update 2.1.4 Now Available!
Geomorph users,We have uploaded version 2.1.4 of geomorph to CRAN. The windows and mac binaries have been compiled and the tarball is available*.Small Changes:warpRefMesh() generalised - now takes a...
View ArticleGeomorph beta in development (2.1.5)
Dear geomorph users,We've been busy adding some new functions to the forthcoming v.2.1.5, currently in beta stage and available on gitHub (installed using:...
View ArticleGeomorph update 2.1.5 Now Available!
Geomorph users,We have uploaded version 2.1.5 of geomorph* to CRAN. The windows and mac binaries have been compiled and the tarball is available.New Features:New Auto Mode allows users to include...
View Articleadvanced.procD.lm for pairwise tests and model comparisons
In geomorph 2.1.5, we decided to deprecate the functions, pairwiseD.test and pairwise.slope.test. Our reason for this was two-fold. First, recent updates by CRAN rendered these functions unstable....
View ArticleTips & Tricks 9: Shape Changes and Hypothetical Shapes
Geomorph users,This month's tips and tricks was prompted by a user email from Tim Astrop, thanks Tim!How can I create a hypothetical shape representing a point in shape space?Today we will use some...
View ArticleGeomorph update 2.1.6 Now Available!
Geomorph users,We have uploaded version 2.1.6 of geomorph* to CRAN. The windows and mac binaries have been compiled and the tarball is available.New Features:New globalIntegration() function for...
View ArticleGeomorph update 2.1.7 Now Available!
Geomorph users,We have uploaded version 2.1.7 of geomorph to CRAN. The windows binaries have been compiled and the tarball is available. However, subsequent to this, we found that under certain input...
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