R help - May 2010 - Comparing three groups, data: present, absent

Dear R-Experts, Dear friends of dung.

I have a statistical Problem, to which nobody I asked could give me an answer.
Maybe you can.

I was in the African-Savanna and made a Dung-Monitoring. This means I walked
randomly over the field and for every Dung-Event I found I noted following
parameters:

Species (Waterbuck, Giraffe, Reedbuck); 
Age-Category (less than a week, more than a week & less than a month, more
than a month);
Termites present (0 or 1);

Now I want to compare for every species, if the percentage of Termites attack
differ between the different Age-Categories

and if the percentage of attacks of Species differ between the same 
Age-Categories.

I only found a lot of very complicated models for "Presence /
Absence". But I do not need to find a treshold, I just want to compare
groups.

My Question now:

- What test do I have to use to compare groups.
- Do I have to transform the data (Termite.Attack which is 0 and 1)?

I really appreciate every hint.

Thanks a lot, 

Dung-Master Marc-Jacques from the swiss federal institute of technology

## Dung observations
## Create a sample original data
data <- data.frame(Species=sample(c("W", "G",
"R"), 200, replace=TRUE),
	Age=sample(c("days", "weeks",
"months"),200,replace=TRUE),
	Termites=sample(c(0,1),200,replace=TRUE))

## Show what original data look like
head(data)

  Species    Age Termites
1       W months        0
2       R  weeks        0
3       W  weeks        0
4       G  weeks        0
5       R months        1
6       W   days        1


## Analyze each species 
## Here we just tabulate Waterbuck as an example
data.w <- data[data$Species == "W",]
table.w <- table(data.w[,2:3])

## The results table looks like
table.w
        Termites
Age       0  1
  days   18  9
  months  9 11
  weeks  10 18
  
## Apply Chi-squared Test
chisq.test(table.w)

## Usually use Pearson's Chi-squared Test
## If your data are not suitable for the Pearson's Chi-squared Test, it
seems that R will tell you. 
## H0 : All three age groups have same Termites attack percentage.
## H1 : All situations except H0.

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