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I'm @MalditoBarbudo, a data scientist at an ecology and forestry research center.
I've been using R for 14 years, starting as an user and ending as a developer. I've done also some python, sql and web development (html, js and css).
I prefer tidyverse, it fit perfectly with my mental logic, but I reckon that sometimes data.table is needed (but in that case dtplyr comes to help!).
I maintain several packages (
sapfluxnetr
,meteospain
...) and collaborate in others (meteoland
,medfate
...). I also maintain a web with several shiny apps for forest data visualization (LFC).My favourite obscure package changes every week or so, but if I have to choose one, lately I've been playing with
rayshader
, trying to create nice 3d map plots.