Re: [R-sig-eco] vegan package: goodness.cca function? (citations needed)

2009-12-16 Thread Jari Oksanen
(CCA) model after using the function goodness.cca in vegan. In his explanation of the diagnostic tools for CCA (http://cc.oulu.fi/~jarioksa/softhelp/vegan/html/goodness.cca.html), Jari Oksanen states that It is a common practise to use goodness statistics to remove species from ordination

Re: [R-sig-eco] dissimilarity and species turnover

2009-12-15 Thread Jari Oksanen
if you are serious), dig up the late 2008 issue of the Ecology with the Legendre mates vs. Tuomisto discussion -- somewhere around pages 3230 to 3256 of vol 89). That's for the starter. Cheers, Jari Oksanen I've been exploring using this approach for a similar problem. I'd be curious to know

Re: [R-sig-eco] Fwd: Fwd: how to calculate axis variance in metaMDS, pakage vegan?

2009-12-10 Thread Jari Oksanen
for mixed models in any other vegan function. Cheers, Jari Oksanen ___ R-sig-ecology mailing list R-sig-ecology@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-ecology

Re: [R-sig-eco] capscale() for PCoA-CDA

2009-12-03 Thread Jari Oksanen
On 3/12/09 23:54 PM, gabriel singer gabriel.sin...@univie.ac.at wrote: Hi everybody, Anybody has used capscale() in package vegan to compute a PCoA-CDA as suggested by Anderson and Willis 2003 (Ecology 84: 511 ff) using one or more factors as predictors? Then I wonder about: *) How to

Re: [R-sig-eco] how to calculate axis variance in metaMDS, pakage vegan?

2009-12-02 Thread Jari Oksanen
print.wcmdscale!) NMDS is really intended for nonlinear mapping onto *low* number of dimensions. Cheers, Jari Oksanen NMS.trial Call: metaMDS(comm = sqrtABCD, distance = bray, k = 23, trymax = 100, autotransform = F) Nonmetric Multidimensional Scaling using isoMDS (MASS package) Data

Re: [R-sig-eco] how to calculate axis variance in metaMDS, pakage vegan?

2009-12-02 Thread Jari Oksanen
this: stress 11.6 is really fine. I think that if you get stress down to 5% (0.05) or less, then there is something fishy in your data or in your model specification, like overfitting. Cheers, Jari Oksanen But, of course, our goal is to reduce the observed complexity of nature

Re: [R-sig-eco] Rotations for PCoA?

2009-10-20 Thread Jari Oksanen
. They are not the same as the strict rotation scores for factors in Gower metric (but should be the same as the Legendre scores for continuous variables), but may be more intuitive. Cheers, jari oksanen ___ R-sig-ecology mailing list R-sig-ecology@r

Re: [R-sig-eco] using two distance metrices in formula

2009-10-13 Thread Jari Oksanen
tests available in several packages in R, but what are the things you want to solve by using dissimilarities? Cheers, Jari Oksanen ___ R-sig-ecology mailing list R-sig-ecology@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-ecology

Re: [R-sig-eco] using two distance metrices in formula

2009-10-13 Thread Jari Oksanen
their conflicting arguments make sense, they are not yet an optimal solution. Cheers, Jari Oksanen so we thought it would be a good idea not to use mantel and friends since the problem of IBD seems to need a different approach here. best, Jens Sarah Goslee schrieb: That doesn't make much

Re: [R-sig-eco] trouble with BiodiversityR:diversityresult function

2009-10-12 Thread Jari Oksanen
easily spot those changes (probably in BiodiversityRGUI, diversityresult, diversityresult0). I have cc'ed this to Roeland Kindt, but I think the Internet connection is not always so good so that it may take some time before he answers. I can look if I can hack around this in vegan. Cheers, Jari

Re: [R-sig-eco] trouble with BiodiversityR:diversityresult function

2009-10-12 Thread Jari Oksanen
On 12/10/09 19:54 PM, Roman Luštrik roman.lust...@gmail.com wrote: Hello list, I have a felling this is a generic error but nonetheless, it has been bugging me extensively. If anyone can chip in, I would most appreciate. I'm trying to calculate expected species richness, following

Re: [R-sig-eco] Mantel test with skew-symmetric matrices?

2009-10-01 Thread Jari Oksanen
On 1/10/09 20:36 PM, Sarah Goslee sarah.gos...@gmail.com wrote: I can only speak for the mantel() within ecodist, but I can tell you that it will not take full matrices - the upper triangle will be dropped. You could roll your own very easily, but it would be exceedingly slow, eg: mat1 -

Re: [R-sig-eco] Fixing parameters in GLM and Mixed Effects Models

2009-09-24 Thread Jari Oksanen
of the other parameters (c-g) turn out to be, as well as the model fit when using the forced parameters in conjunction with the free parameters. Cheers, Jari Oksanen ___ R-sig-ecology mailing list R-sig-ecology@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman

Re: [R-sig-eco] wascores() for metaMDS?

2009-08-19 Thread Jari Oksanen
that species are not points nor arrows. Vegan tutorial (from the Web) gives an example. Cheers, Jari Oksanen ___ R-sig-ecology mailing list R-sig-ecology@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-ecology

Re: [R-sig-eco] Neighbor sampling is random?

2009-07-04 Thread Jari Oksanen
E. C. Pielou may be one of the first who wrote about this. Check her book 'Mathematical ecology' (J. Wiley, 1977). Best wishes, Jari Oksanen -Original Message- From: Paulo Inácio de Knegt López de Prado Sent: 04.07.2009, 17:35 To: r-sig-ecology@r-project.org Subject: [R-sig-eco

Re: [R-sig-eco] Vegan DCCA axis length

2009-01-13 Thread Jari Oksanen
in which Gavin Simpson and Jari Oksanen states that are not available routines in vegan to retrieve this information. I am interested in the length of the DCCA/pCCA axis as I would like to perform a similar analyses to the one Lancaster et al. 1996 performed to measure community persistence

Re: [R-sig-eco] Intepreting a plot from a constrained NMDS

2008-12-07 Thread Jari Oksanen
(and go along the axes), then it would be meaningful to look a the relationship of axis and something else. And indeed, there is no constrained NMDS in vegan. It is unconstrained with an interpretation through vector fitting. cheers, jari oksanen Stephen Sefick On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 11:58 AM

Re: [R-sig-eco] Question on height for hclust function

2008-11-17 Thread Jari Oksanen
effect on the scales. The choice of clustering method has a huge impact. cheers, Jari Oksanen ___ R-sig-ecology mailing list R-sig-ecology@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-ecology

Re: [R-sig-eco] output from ordisurf

2008-10-27 Thread Jari Oksanen
them to draw the surface with the contour() command. The grid item is available from vegan working version 1.16-3 (revision 532) in R-Forge, and Windows binary is available (probably) from tomorrow morning (Central European Standard Time). Best wishes, Jari Oksanen -- Jari Oksanen [EMAIL

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