If you send them to me I can place them on the Stony Brook Morphometrics website along with the other morphometric software. If there is enough interest, I could create a special page for software in R.
------------------------ F. James Rohlf, Distinguished Professor Ecology & Evolution, Stony Brook University www: http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/ee/rohlf > -----Original Message----- > From: morphmet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 9:37 AM > To: morphmet > Subject: Re: missing points and symetrization > > Hi > I wrote functions in R that do this (align along the midline plane, and > either average left and right or fill in NA's based on the other > side).I'll be happy to send it to you and anyone else who's interested. > I've been meaning to put them online but I don't even have a website > yet > and no time so far to make one... > Best, > Annat > > ---------- > Annat Haber, PhD candidate > Committee on Evolutionary Biology > University of Chicago > Culver Hall 402 > 1025 E. 57th St. > Chicago IL 60637 > > Office: Hinds 289 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > c: 773 576 4205 > > > > > From: morphmet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: <[email protected]> > > Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:10:48 +0100 > > To: morphmet <[email protected]> > > Subject: missing points and symetrization > > Resent-From: <[email protected]> > > Resent-Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 01:12:10 -0800 (PST) > > > > I a m working on human skulls fossiles. Therefore there are many > missing > > points and I decided to replace the bilateral points by the symetric > > (right<->left) points. (Of course this does not solve the problem > when > > the missing points have no symetric and when both symetric are > missing.) > > I am working on 3D data and found only morpheus to partially answer > my > > problem: > > 1) For each individual I construct the symetric by changing the sign > of > > one coordinate (x, y or z) > > 2) I import each individual and its symetric to Morpheus then do a > gpa > > of those 2 images (individual and its symetric) > > 3) I use the consensus, unscaled, for the further work (gpa, pca > > etc...with the R shapes library of Ian Dryden) on all my skulls > > Therefore, I am working on completely symetric skulls because all > > symetric points (right and left) are averaged. > > I did this procedure one by one, which is a little bothering and > working > > like a donkey. This was possible with my 100 skulls used in my master > > degree, but no more now with hundreds of Pan, Gorilla, Homo etc... > > I am now looking for an automatic procedure to do this job. Do anyone > > know a software that could help ? > > > > Thank youy for your answers > > > > Stéphane BOUEE, Paris, France > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > -- > > Replies will be sent to the list. > > For more information visit http://www.morphometrics.org > > > > > > > -- > Replies will be sent to the list. > For more information visit http://www.morphometrics.org -- Replies will be sent to the list. For more information visit http://www.morphometrics.org
