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