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Hi all, I have site data with plant species cover and am looking for trends. I'm kind of new to this, but have done lots of reading and can't find an answer. I tried decorana (I know it's been replaced by ca.) and see a trend, but I'm not sure what it means. Is there a way to get the loadings/eigenvectors of the axes (like in PCA)? Is there a way to do this with rda() too? How

Dear all at the R-project help list. I have run into a problem when it comes to getting values for "total inertia" and "R-squared" for my DCA using "decorana" in the package "vegan". I have tried the "goodness" function, but the reply indicates that it does not work with "decorana" class objects. In Canoco one gets the Total inertia in

How do one dertermine the optimal number of rescaling cycles to use when performing DCA using the decorana function (library vegan)? Thanks for your time, Marc =================== Marc Bélisle Professeur adjoint Chaire de recherche du Canada en écologie spatiale et en écologie du paysage Département de biologie Université de Sherbrooke 2500 Boul. de l'Université Sherbrooke, Québec J1K 2R1

Hi I am new to Cygwin and Linux. I installed R under Cygwin as part of the setup I chose "All" during installation, for all packages. So I have the FULL installlation of cygwin up and running, including gfortran. *Under Cygwin, how do I check and configure the path to the various libraries?* I am trying below command and it says, cannot find "lgfortran" But I have installed

Hello, I am interested in using the capscale function of vegan package of R. I already have a dissimilarity matrix and I am intended to use it as 'distance' argument. But then, I don't know what kind of data must be in 'comm' argument. I don't understand what type of data must be referred as 'species scores' and 'community data frame' since my data refer to

I've been unable to find a R package that provides the means of performing Clarke & Ainsworth's BIO-ENV procedure or something comparable. Briefly, they describe a method for comparing two separate sample ordinations, one from species data and the second from environmental data. The analysis includes selection of the 'best' subset of environmental variables for explaining

Dear R-help, I'm trying to create a simple R package that contains 3 string functions, but I have run into some problems: what are the correct permission for the files in the package directory? Yours faitfully, Rasmus * checking for file `stringfun/DESCRIPTION' ... OK * checking package directory ... OK * checking for sufficient/correct file permissions ... WARNING * Found the

Hello This is a simple question but I couldn't google an answer. In the procrustes function of the vegan package, one uses plot(procrustes_object, kind=2) to obtain a plot of the residual differences. For instance: data(varespec) vare.dist <- vegdist(wisconsin(varespec)) library(MASS) mds.null <- isoMDS(vare.dist, tol=1e-7) mds.alt <- isoMDS(vare.dist,

Can anyone point me in the right direction of figuring out what downweight() is doing? I am using vegan to perform CCA on diatom assemblage data. I have a lot of rare species, so I want to reduce the influence of rare species in my CCA. I have read that some authors reduce rare species by only including species with an abundance of at least 1% in at least one sample (other authors use 5% as a

Dear r-helpers, I just read in an article by Virtanen et al. (2006) where vegetation-environment relationships are studied by fitting smoothed surfaces on an NMDS ordination using GAMs (Wood 2000). The authors describe, that they used R? as goodness-of-fit statistic, which they compare to the R? of fitted vectors. Calculations were carried out using the package vegan (Oksanen). I know that I can

I have been trying to use the rbeta() function to generate random beta variates with a particular mean and standard deviaiton for some simulation problems I am working on, however I am unsure of the relationship between the parameters shape1 and shape2 and the mean and standard deviation of the beta distribution. I am guessing that there is a formula for this, but I am unsure what it is. Can

Hi: The y axis on the hist function seems to set its limits oddly. sometimes, it covers the full range of the data and sometimes it stops one major tick short. I have had this behavior with a variety of data sets, and it can easily be reproduced by just running the following several times: hist(rnorm(100000)) I have tried explicitly setting ylim to the range of values produced by rnorm

Dear Help List, My name is Matt Oliver. I have been using R for about a year and find it very helpful. However, I have a need for a function that I cannot find. I am not very good at programming so I thought I would ask the group. I have an irregular grid of data (x = Longitude, y = Latitude). Each pair of my x,y has a categorical value. Obviously linear or any other numerically based

Hello, I am using vegan to do an NMDS plot and I would like to suppress the labels for the loading vectors. Is this possible? Alternatively, how can I avoid overlap? Many thanks for the help. Example code: #perform NMDS using metaMDS() function spe.nmds<-metaMDS(data, distance='bray',k=2 , engine = "isoMDS", autotransform=F, trymax=1000) #calculate the loading (i.e.,

Dear R users, Up to now, I only used precompiled packages. As I am working on vegetation ecology, I would be interested in using a package not stored by CRAN called labdsv_0.9-1.tar.gz and developped by Dave Roberts at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (unfortunately I did not find any corresponding .zip file). Although I tried to follow the proposed guidelines to

Hi I'd like to know if the R can do the DCCA? Because I can't find the package about the DCCA in R. If it can not, please introduce a free software to me, which you think can easily do the work , thanks! jeff

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I am trying to install labDSV from http://labdsv.nr.usu.edu/ into R-Windows 1.5.0. It only comes as a TAR file which extracts into folders that seem to match those for other libraries DATA, MAN, R and SRC. I have manually copied these folders into a folder called labDSV under the Library directory under R. However when I load the library I get a message that the library contains no R code.

Dear list, here is an example of stepAIC that I do not understand. The data is n=42, Lage is the only factor and there are four other variables treated as continuous. First you see the stepAIC-forward solution (fs7). The strange thing here is that apparently not all interactions are tried for inclusion, but only WQ:Lage. In particular, I think that WFL:Lage should be tried in the last two

Hi list, I am using the capscale function in vegan_2.0-7 to do a constrained principal coordinates analysis, and I kept getting the following error message: Error in Y.r[, oo, drop = FALSE] : subscript out of bounds I googled but I couldn't find an answer. Could anyone tell me why this error msg and what to do? Here is the command I used: