Re: [R-sig-eco] envfit() in vegan

2013-10-17 Thread Paolo Piras
environmental variables and the ordination scores best paolo Da: Jari Oksanen jari.oksa...@oulu.fi Inviato: giovedì 17 ottobre 2013 9.32 A: Paolo Piras Cc: r-sig-ecology@r-project.org Oggetto: Re: [R-sig-eco] envfit() in vegan On 17/10/2013, at 02:49 AM, Paolo

[R-sig-eco] envfit() in vegan

2013-10-16 Thread Paolo Piras
Dear list, I write you because I do not understand the behavior of envfit() in vegan. Basically, it takes a matrix coming from an ordination procedure and it fits on it another matrix (often an environmental matrix). The projections of points onto vectors have maximum correlation with