Problem: I have a Set of samples each with a list of observed species
(presence only).
Data is stored in a excel spreadsheet and the columns (spl) have
different numbers of observations (spcs).
Now I want to organize the data in a species by sample matrix with
presence/absence style in R.
data
Patrick Zimmermann wrote:
Problem: I have a Set of samples each with a list of observed species
(presence only).
Data is stored in a excel spreadsheet and the columns (spl) have
different numbers of observations (spcs).
Now I want to organize the data in a species by sample matrix with
I think you can still read as a table, just use argument fill=TRUE.
Reading from Excel in general: you can save data as 'csv' or tab-delimited
file and then use read.csv or read.delim, respectively, or use one of the
packages listed in the following post (for some reason lines breaks are
messed
