Dear r-sig-ecology, Please forgive me if this question has already been answered, I have perused the web and due to me being fairly new to R, I have had trouble interpreting the answers.
I wish to calculate the functional diversity indices (Functional Richness, divergence, evenness, Rao-quadratic). My dataset consists of 14 species, 25 sites, and 8 categorical traits. I have been using the FD package but from what I have read I need to convert the categorical data using the gowdist function and then run pcoa to generate continuous data? However, when I run the gowdist and pcoa I thought I'd get a number to replace the categorical data so I could then run the dbFD function in the FD package to calculate the FD indices, but this isn't happening, and I am not sure how to take the output from the pcoa and run in dbFD. Any help would be greatly appreciated (apologies for the beginner question) thanks [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-ecology mailing list R-sig-ecology@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-ecology