gif provided by the awesome Jen Bright @MorphobeakGeek!
In this exercise we will use a github repo to collaboratively collate and simulate evolutionary trajectories for each participants' species body size using a simple brownian motion evolutionary model. This assumes evolutionary steps to progress comletely at random. You could say, it's a bit of lottery!
- Each participant will create and contribute a file specifying the parameters required to simulate and plot their species evolutionary trajectory.
- We'll collect all participants' files in the master repo.
- Once all trajectories are simulated they'll be plotted together.
- Participants will then get to see the skull and beak shape corresponding to their species relative body size!
NHM STARS training course: Thursday, 18th May 11:00-12:00
We'll be accepting pull requests by remote participants between 11.30 - 12.00, so anyone can get involved! Follow #EvoLottery on the day for live updates on twitter.
- fork the repo into your own account
- copy repo url link local files to github repo
- create new project
- checkout from version control/git
- paste github repo link
A template is provided in the repo, in folder /params named params_tmpl.R. Open the params_tmpl.R and save as to create a duplicate template. Name the template using the name of your species.
The parameters each participants need to supply are:
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sig2: A numeric value greater than 0 but smaller than 5 -
species.name: a character string e.g."anas_krystallinus". Try to create a species name out of your name! -
color: e.g."red","#FFFFFF"(tip: pick a color using Rstudio's Color picker:)
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Use the git tab, tick the box next to your new script ONLY and commit.
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Supply a descriptive message of the commit.
- push your changes to github
- create a pull request to merge your changes to the master repo
- most likely it'll be a thumbs up! But I might also request a correction if I spot an error.