Ron E. VanNimwegen wrote:

>Two R libraries (packages) that deal with multivariate ecological 
>statistics that complement each other quite well are "VEGAN" and 
>"LABDSV" written by Jari Oksanen and Dave Roberts, respectively.  If you 
>Google their web sites, you'll find some very useful tutorials as well.  
>They both depend on the package "MASS" which is included in the base 
>installation.  Other than that, most univariate techniques are available 
>in the base package "STATS" and the R-project web site has tutorials for 
>those.  Library "NLME" does mixed models if you need to go that route.
>
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R has a new thing called "Task Views" which summarises the packages that 
are useful in different areas.  The Spatial task view:
http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Views/Spatial.html
includes a compontent on ecological data.  It would be possible for 
someone to write a task view for ecological data (hint, hint).

Unfortunately, there's nothing there that will definitively identify 
different species of woodpecker from grainy pictures.

Bob

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