🧵1/9: NEWS: The palmerpenguins R pkg is on CRAN 🐧🎉! Contains structural size measurements & more for 3 penguin species that nest throughout the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica, collected & published by Dr. Kristen Gorman (@kbgorman_ecoevo) & team @PalmerLTER! 
🧵2/9: Learn more in our new post on the RStudio Education blog: Release the penguins! education.rstudio.com/blog/2020/07/p…
🧵3/9: @apreshill led palmerpenguins pkg development & made our beautiful site which has more info, examples & visualizations! 🐧🏆 Check out vignettes to download artwork, learn how to do PCA with #tidymodels, + more! allisonhorst.github.io/palmerpenguins/
🧵4/9: The Palmer Archipelago penguins are a great replacement for many use cases of the iris data. No more setosa, versicolor & virginica - drop in the Adélies, gentoos & chinstraps!
🧵5/9: Penguin data were collected by @kbgorman_ecoevo & others @PalmerLTER over 3 years (2007 - 2009) on 3 islands along the Antarctic Peninsula. Map of study site (Figure 1 from Gorman et al. journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…):
🧵6/9: Here are some of @kbgorman_ecoevo’s stunning pictures from the study. First, meet (and adore) the penguins!
🧵7/9: Here are Adélie penguins raising chicks at Torgersen Island! (photo: @kbgorman_ecoevo).
🧵8/9: And a gentoo penguin colony at Biscoe Point (photo: @kbgorman_ecoevo). More photos to include in your teaching materials: bit.ly/palmerpenguins…
🧵9/9: Have fun with the palmerpenguins! Thank you @USLTER & @PalmerLTER for licensing information and for encouraging this project! Learn more about LTER (lternet.edu) & access more really cool LTER datasets through @EDIgotdata: environmentaldatainitiative.org 🐟🌳🌊🦉
