Hi Igor,
let me know if you have some problems in running the scripts; I'm confident
you should be able to achieve this easily...
contact me for any (theorical or computational) clarification
I will try to answer according to my new tasks...
all the best
Paolo


Il giorno dom 6 set 2020 alle ore 22:16 Igor Talijančić <
[email protected]> ha scritto:

> Dear Ian, Paolo and David,
>
> Thank you so much for your efforts regarding my inquiry. I would like to
> say that anything that is related to the replicating the analysis that I
> previously posted would be great since I plan to implement them in my
> research, and hopefully, in my PhD thesis.
>
> Paolo, I will take some time to do more in-depth studying of your paper
> and to see if I can implement those methods on my sample dataset, with the
> R scripts that you have provided.
>
>
>
> Thank you for your given time and consideration.
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Igor
>
>
> Dana petak, 4. rujna 2020. u 16:31:31 UTC+2 korisnik [email protected]
> napisao je:
>
>> I Ian and David,
>> yes, maybe an ad hoc R package would be great but for reasons not
>> depending on my merits (or de-merits) I'm not (virtually and hoping for
>> some miracles that could bring me again in the research field) on the field
>> of scientific research anymore. So.....only if Antonio Profico and Pasquale
>> Raia will take the commitment to compile the package it will born.
>> Anyway...I can assure all audience here that the functions and the scripts
>> are not difficult to use at all.
>> As we wrote on the supp info all "supplementary material contains
>> necessary R functions and R scripts to reproduce all figures presented in
>> the main text that imply specific analyses. The file "Piras et al Frontiers
>> ancillary functions.r" must be loaded as source. It checks if required
>> packages are installed and loaded and, if not, it calls the corresponding
>> installing and/or loading commands. Any script is intended to work "stand
>> alone" and all landmarks necessary for analyses are defined within the
>> scripts so that no workspace loading is necessary. The ad hoc built
>> functions will be present in a future package that is under development.
>> Some basic functions are wrappers or hacking of functions present in
>> existing packages; others, mainly regarding speed optimization, are
>> inspired by some Stackoverflow comments. Also, function names are not in a
>> "CRAN style" and may change in future."
>> All the best
>> Paolo
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Il giorno ven 4 set 2020 alle ore 16:22 Ian Dworkin <[email protected]>
>> ha scritto:
>>
>>> Igor and David and Paolo,
>>>
>>>  Eladio sent me all of the matlab code for those programs,and I have
>>> them on dropbox. I was originally planning on porting it to R, but then
>>> Paulo and I chatted a few months back, and I figured he would make an R
>>> package that among other things included the approach implemented in LORY
>>> (among others) so I figure it would be better for me to be patient for a
>>> fully implemented R library. Not sure if that is in the cards, Paolo?
>>>
>>> In any case, if this is ok with David and Eladio, I can provide a link
>>> to the matlab code for LORY if that is relevant. What I don't have is the
>>> specific scripts for the examples in the paper itself.
>>>
>>> Ian
>>>
>>> On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 at 10:00, 'David Houle' via Morphmet <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear Igor,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your interest in using Lory.  Lory is purely a visualization
>>>> program, and does not do any statistical testing.  It only performs the
>>>> operations necessary to produce visualizations of the relationships between
>>>> pairs of forms, using whatever configurations of landmarks are furnished to
>>>> the program as input.  The program and documentation is available at
>>>> https://www.bio.fsu.edu/~dhoule/software.html.
>>>>
>>>> More important though, is how to do similar analyses to those in the
>>>> Márquez et al. (2012)  paper:
>>>>
>>>> On the example data with *Drosophila* species authors have computed
>>>> sample mean wing shape deformations for the two Drosophila species (Fig. 
>>>> 4).
>>>>
>>>> Fig. 4 in Márquez et al. (2012) is based on simulated deformations
>>>> using the Drosophila wing mean shape as the origin.
>>>>
>>>> o   How did they do that? Did they computed the group means in other
>>>> programs or R packages and then imported them in Lory or there is a way to
>>>> get them in Lory because I haven’t found an option to do that. One of the
>>>> ways, as I see it, is to compute the mean shapes in geomorph and them
>>>> import those means shapes in Lory to visualise those means shapes.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, you are correct.  Forms that are functions of other forms must be
>>>> calculated outside of Lory, then furnished to Lory.
>>>>
>>>>  After one iteration of the Delaunay algorithm, without any selection
>>>> of evaluation  nodes, Lory found 74 nodes for evaluation. Based on that map
>>>> of interspecific differences in local wing shape (Fig.5), on the extracted
>>>> Jacobian determinants (74) ANOVA with Bonferroni correction for multiple
>>>> comparison was performed which resulted with significant (stars) and
>>>> non-significant (crosses) differences.
>>>>
>>>> o   How did they computed that one shape with displayed interspecific
>>>> differences?
>>>>
>>>> I believe that Fig. 5 was produced in Lory, by furnishing each
>>>> subcompartment's data to Lory separately.
>>>>
>>>> o   Did they extracted Jacobians determinants from Lory and then
>>>> performed ANOVA in some other program?
>>>>
>>>> Lory does not output the Jacobian determinants directly.  We first
>>>> calculated the determinants in Matlab, then analyzed the differences in
>>>> SAS.
>>>>
>>>> o   How did they know which node was significant or not? I suppose that
>>>> you have to extract the coordinates that reflect their position on the map
>>>> of interspecific differences or did I get it wrong?
>>>>
>>>> Yes, you do local analyses on the sets of determinants that interest
>>>> you.
>>>>
>>>>  How did they computed the mean representation of intraspecific
>>>> variance in Drosophila species? In Lory or in other program?
>>>>
>>>> Again, this is based on simulated data using the Drosophila mean wing
>>>> shape.  Means were calculated in another program, then furnished to Lory.
>>>>
>>>>  Figures 7. and 8. represent interspecific correlations and
>>>> interspecific differences and intraspecific variances. I suppose that these
>>>> figures were computed in Coriandis software** on Jacobian determinants? I
>>>> tried to import the data in Coriandis to explore if I could compute and get
>>>> those figures but I am having problems with assigning group info and names
>>>> to the imported non landmark data such as Jacobian determinants – no way I
>>>> could manage to do that even when I tried to follow the footsteps in the
>>>> manual that authors provided.
>>>>
>>>> The left plots in Fig. 7 were produced in Lory, the right side plots
>>>> were not. Since the bubble plots do not represent shape directly, they are
>>>> not part of Lory.  Eladio Márquez made the bubble plots, and Fig. 8.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Eladio Márquez wrote Lory, and performed most of the analyses in the
>>>> Márquez et al. (2012) paper.  He would probably have more insight into
>>>> precisely how some of the Figures you mentioned were produced.
>>>> Unfortunately, this paper was published before journals started to force us
>>>> to furnish all the code necessary to produce the data.  I probably have all
>>>> the programs archived, but these are not clearly documented. As noted in
>>>> the paper, analyses were performed in SAS, Matlab, Java, C++, and Python
>>>> software.  I can dig them out and send them on if you wish.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> * Márquez, EJ., Cabeen, R., Woods, RP., Houle, D. 2012. The Measurement
>>>> of Local Variation in Shape. Evol Biol, 39: 419 – 439.
>>>>
>>>> ** Márquez, EJ. & Knowles LL. 2007. Correlated evolution of
>>>> multivariate traits: detecting codivergence across multiple dimensions. J.
>>>> Evol. Biol., 20: 2334 - 2348.
>>>>
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