Hi
there is a task view for ecological and environmental data maintained by 
Gavin Simpson

http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Views/Environmetrics.html

including ordination, tree based models, modelling species responses, 
cluster analysis, environmental time series, spatial models etc

Best, Leonard


Anon. wrote:

>Ron E. VanNimwegen wrote:
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>>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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Dr. Leonard Sandin
Department of Environmental Assessment / Miljöanalys
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences / SLU
P.O. Box 7050
SE-750 07 Uppsala
Sweden

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