This repository contain some notes on why learning to code is a useful skill (beyond, becuase my advisor said so).

1. Reproducibility
   • Mostly for you, but also for others
   • Have you ever had to re-do analysis?
     • If done point and click, reproducing analysis is laborious, and often does not produce same results
     • Example from my work: N-Sink rasterization https://github.com/jhollist/nsink_raster
     • Example from Bio: https://web.uri.edu/plankton/
2. Automation
   • If you have to do something more than once, automate it.
     • Example from my work: Watershed Watch https://github.com/jhollist/green_murky_warm
3. Code provides very precise description of methods
4. Tools useful beyond just science
5. HUGE demand for capable coders
   • I've had positions go unfilled becuase lack of candidates.
6. Pull out scripts from long ago and re-create figures etc. with ease
7. Shiny
8. R Markdown
9. Community!

• R Graph Gallery