Andrew, In R, could you use the pch argument to specify a different shaped point for each lake and a color ramp (several ways to implement) to symbolize distance from shore?
Jess On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Andrew Michelson <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear EcoLoggers, > > I am about to publish a paper, but the editors want me to redraft a figure > of a non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) ordination with 2 > categories for each point, rather than the one category I showed. Any > ideas the best way to do this? I use R, but prefer PAST to do NMDS. > > Specifically, I sampled 16 communities in each of 7 seven lakes along a > transect into each lake. Originally, I colored each point to represent the > lake where the sample came from, but the editors want each point to > indicate the lake it came from *and* its distance from the lake shore on > the same NMDS ordination. Any ideas? > > Thank you for your help, > > Andrew Michelson > Postdoctoral Researcher > Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences > University of Akron > Akron, OH 44325-4101 > (330) 634-7193 >
