I'm a research fellow in the Astrophysics & Space Research (ASR)
Group at the University of Birmingham.
My research interests include groups & clusters of galaxies, the
intracluster medium, galaxy feedback and cosmology, as part of the extragalactic group.
I'm also responsible for organising the seminars for the ASR group.
R
I have written some web pages on using the R software package here (see also the link next to home &
contact in the top left of every page).
For more information on using R in astronomy, click on
the image (left). For some more examples of plots
created with R, including the code that created them,
see the R gallery page. There are also pages on getting started with R, as well as some
tutorials.
New York Times article (2009-01-07) on R here
and blog article "Are you ready for R?"
"R is really important to the point that it's hard to overvalue it"
- Google research scientist, quoted in the New York Times
What's new
- 2010-01-18 : Added section on bootstrap error estimates to R pages
- 2009-10-20 : Sanderson & Ponman paper accepted (MNRAS),
(arXiv:0910.3212; see also
papers and online data pages)
- 2009-06-12 : Sanderson, Edge & Smith paper accepted (MNRAS),
(arXiv:0906.1808; see also
papers page)
- 2009-06-02 : Added colour/larger font presentation versions of selected figures from Sanderson, O'Sullivan & Ponman, 2009
- 2009-03-03 : R pages featured in Revolution Computing blog article