Zhian N. Kamvar, Ph. D.

I am a Research Software Engineer on sabbatical, improving my craft, contributing to rOpenSci and the R project, and learning Korean. I am the former Lesson Infrastructure Developer at The Carpentries and worked to make the Lesson Infrastructure a more accessible and friendly place to contribute. I’m trained in the population genetics of clonal plant pathogens and have a strong passion for creating user-friendly and sensible computational tools in R.

This site serves as my personal site where I can blog about various subjects including R programming, reproducible science, and population genetics.

Blog

Finally getting VPN to work again on Ubuntu

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Various projects I am currently working on

adegenet

Adegenet was created by Thibaut Jombart and has been on CRAN since April, 2007. I was involved in the migration to version 2.0 in the summer of 2015, which included consolitading S4 methods and including the strata() methods. I have been maintaining the package by fixing bugs and responding to CRAN requests since 2020. Abstract Toolset for the exploration of genetic and genomic data. Adegenet provides formal (S4) classes for storing and handling various genetic data, including genetic markers with varying ploidy and hierarchical population structure (‘genind’ class), alleles counts by populations (‘genpop’), and genome-wide SNP data (‘genlight’).

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