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

2009-12-10 Thread Maria Dulce Subida
Dear Gian, I'm still not quite sure about the functioning of adonis(). I made some proofs and I don't understand how does it calculate the degrees of freedom of a nested factor. But this is most probably due to my lack of experience with this function (as I told you I usually work with the PER

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

2009-12-09 Thread Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci
Hi Maria, Yes, I think it's right, maybe now I did the correct function, It seems that the "area" effect is also visible... > adonis(ABCDsqrt ~ Host, method="bray", data=env.table, permutations=99, strata=env.table$Community) Call: adonis(formula = ABCDsqrt ~ Host, data = env.table, permutations

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

2009-12-09 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 10:25 +0100, gabriel singer wrote: > Gian, > > You may also want to use betadisper() to check whether the host effect > is due to differences in "location" or "dispersion" (or both). This is > equivalent to checking homogeneity of variance when running a classical > ANOVA.

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

2009-12-09 Thread gabriel singer
Gian, You may also want to use betadisper() to check whether the host effect is due to differences in "location" or "dispersion" (or both). This is equivalent to checking homogeneity of variance when running a classical ANOVA. cheers, g Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci wrote: Jari, Gavin, Chris

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

2009-12-09 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 20:27 +0100, Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci wrote: > Jari, Gavin, Chris, Gabriel and Carsten... > ...So, I would explain a little about my datasets: > > - the species matrix is done by roots samples in which were counted the > ectomycorrhizal fungal species present (cells entiti

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

2009-12-09 Thread Maria Dulce Subida
Hi Gian, I've never used adonis() [I'm a R beginner] but I've been doing multivariate analysis for some time: I usually use PRIMER with the PERMANOVA add-in. nMDS followed by PERMANOVA works quite well for me in experimental designs similar to yours. But it seems to me that you have nestednes

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

2009-12-08 Thread Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci
Jari, Gavin, Chris, Gabriel and Carsten... Many thank you all for your support and kindness... and for your competence and experience that could not be ever comparized to mine at least in that stuffs... Gabriel said: .*..I found this mailing list very helpful many times for my own questions, but

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

2009-12-08 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 17:09 +0100, Carsten Dormann wrote: > Dear disputants. I'm not sure anyone is disagreeing here? > > If this is a poll, I'd like to second Gabriel's email, with respect to > his comments on the usefulness of the R-sig-ecology mailing list AND his > comments on (n)MDS + ado

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

2009-12-08 Thread Carsten Dormann
Dear disputants. If this is a poll, I'd like to second Gabriel's email, with respect to his comments on the usefulness of the R-sig-ecology mailing list AND his comments on (n)MDS + adonis AND his point on slowly developing the standard of your research field, rather than immediately dwarfing

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

2009-12-08 Thread gabriel singer
Hi Gian and others, I think we better stop worrying about subjective interpretations of emotional backgrounds of what in other aspects are absolutely helpful discussion threads... I guess part of the challenge on this mailing list is to span the whole range of expertise with useful discussion

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

2009-12-08 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 20:10 +0100, Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci wrote: > Hi Gavin and Hi all, > > I will not go in front of a bus for sure, I not mad, at least I am not still > mad... :) > > I would like to tell you that I am a Ph.D. student, and for what I know, > Ph.D. student still have to under

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

2009-12-08 Thread Chris Habeck
Gian,, I applaud your continued struggle to understand the best route of analysis. If I were you, I would ignore the rude comments made by some and focus on the constructive replies from others. Good luck! Chris Habeck Ph.D. Candidate Department of Zoology University of Wisconsin, Madison http:

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

2009-12-07 Thread Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci
Hi Gavin and Hi all, I will not go in front of a bus for sure, I not mad, at least I am not still mad... :) I would like to tell you that I am a Ph.D. student, and for what I know, Ph.D. student still have to understand things studing those from whom wrote before them... Isac Newton became famou

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

2009-12-07 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 17:56 +0100, Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci wrote: > Hi all again, > > And thank you all for the kind responses... > > I do not want to torture myself for sure... :) I red (lot of) publications > about fungal community ecology studies (soil fungi), my research field > indeed, an

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

2009-12-06 Thread Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci
Hi all again, And thank you all for the kind responses... I do not want to torture myself for sure... :) I red (lot of) publications about fungal community ecology studies (soil fungi), my research field indeed, and all uses NMDS or DCA as ordination techniques... So, I am only trying to do my be

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

2009-12-04 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 19:27 +0100, Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci wrote: > Jari, > > I am here again ... :) > So, to try having a comparison of the real goodness of my metaMDS data I > tried to perform a DCA (with same input table) > Then please forgive me if I do somethign wrong with it... That's my

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

2009-12-03 Thread Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci
Jari, I am here again ... :) So, to try having a comparison of the real goodness of my metaMDS data I tried to perform a DCA (with same input table) Then please forgive me if I do somethign wrong with it... That's my R code: >decorana(sqrtABCD, iweigh=0, ira=0) -> DCA.1 > DCA.1 Call: decorana(ve