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. > > > 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 -- Bob O'Hara Department of Mathematics and Statistics P.O. Box 68 (Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2b) FIN-00014 University of Helsinki Finland Telephone: +358-9-191 51479 Mobile: +358 50 599 0540 Fax: +358-9-191 51400 WWW: http://www.RNI.Helsinki.FI/~boh/ Journal of Negative Results - EEB: www.jnr-eeb.org
