galacticedtools
R-based tools for visualizing data, creating puzzles, and other digital gizmos for use by K-16 educators. Much of this code was developed for Galactic Polymath lessons. Instead of keeping it to ourselves, we want to share it with you.
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Repository
R-based tools for visualizing data, creating puzzles, and other digital gizmos for use by K-16 educators. Much of this code was developed for Galactic Polymath lessons. Instead of keeping it to ourselves, we want to share it with you.
Basic Info
- Host: GitHub
- Owner: galacticpolymath
- License: other
- Language: R
- Default Branch: main
- Homepage: https://galacticpolymath.github.io/galacticEdTools
- Size: 19.7 MB
Statistics
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 1
- Releases: 7
Metadata Files
README.md
galacticEdTools
An
package to support K-16 education and scicomm. This code was developed
by Galactic Polymath Education Studio to
solve teaching and visualization challenges associated with our lessons.
The functions do a variety of things, from making it easy to generate a
dated phylogeny that’s ready for biology presentations in minutes to
turning any ggplot graph into a fun puzzle by enciphering the graph
labels. There’s lots more to come!
Installation
*Before you start (or if you run into errors), consider updating R to ver 4.1.0 or better and Rstudio ver 1.4.1717 or better.
The package is not on CRAN yet, but you can install the latest version from GitHub with:
``` r
install.packages("devtools") #you need devtools to install from github
devtools::install_github("galacticpolymath/galacticEdTools")
* may have to install a fair number of dependencies/updates (I'll work on streamlining this at some point)
load it
require(galacticEdTools)
require(datelife) If you get an error about taxa not being found in any chronograms, try this
```
What can you do with galacticEdTools?
Make a dated phylogeny for teaching about evolution in just a line or two with showPhylo()

And a growing number of other things. Check out the Reference Section
Is this package useful to you? There are several ways you can support its continued development.
- Use it! And tag
@galacticPM
&
@mattwilkinsbio
in a Tweet showcasing what you made. - Sign up for our mailing list and let G5-16 teachers in your network know about our free lessons and tools.
- If you’re a researcher who needs to do outreach, hire us to make your Broader Impacts an easier lift, with higher production, and greater reach.
- Help us out! We want to streamline the transfer of knowledge from Academia into K-12 schools by offering unbelievably high quality, interdisciplinary lessons that are free for teachers. As a self-funded startup, we depend on volunteer and friendly contract labor from skilled developers (react.js, HTML, CSS, R, D3), graphic designers, artists, education experts and social media influencers. If you want to be part of the GP team, reach out to matt@galacticpolymath.com.
Owner
- Name: Galactic Polymath
- Login: galacticpolymath
- Kind: organization
- Repositories: 11
- Profile: https://github.com/galacticpolymath
Citation (CITATION.cff)
cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this software, please cite it as below."
authors:
- family-names: "Wilkins"
given-names: "Matthew R"
orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3162-6749"
title: "galacticpolymath/galacticEdTools: R Tools for K-16 Teaching"
version: 0.1.3
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.6563892
date-released: 2021-12-18
url: "https://galacticpolymath.github.io/galacticEdTools"
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Dependencies
- datelife >= 0.3.2 depends
- RCurl >= 1.98 imports
- WikipediR >= 1.5.0 imports
- fs >= 1.5.0 imports
- ggimage >= 0.2.9 imports
- ggplot2 >= 3.3.5 imports
- ggtext >= 0.1.1 imports
- ggtree >= 3.0.4 imports
- lifecycle >= 1.0.0 imports
- pbapply >= 1.5.0 imports
- png >= 0.1.0 imports
- remotes >= 2.0.0 imports
- rotl >= 3.0.11 imports
- rvest >= 1.0.1 imports
- showtext >= 0.9.0 imports
- stringr >= 1.4.0 imports
- sysfonts >= 0.8.5 imports
- taxize >= 0.9.99 imports
- BiocManager >= 1.30.16 suggests
- magick >= 2.7.3 suggests