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2009-09-15 Thread v_coudrain
Hello, I would like to post a message, but I was wondering if I had to subscribe first? Here is my message: II performed over the seanson a census of butterflies on 8 sites . I have for each date un number of individuals and of species. I would like to know which function I could use to test if s

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

2009-09-15 Thread gabriel singer
gavin and jari, thanks, all makes sense I have to state that remembering the discussion we had some weeks ago about fitting underlying (or environmental) variables to a MDS ordination, that using vectorfit for this purpose indeed would make sense for me, too. As long as before choosing th

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

2009-09-15 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 17:02 +0200, gabriel singer wrote: > Hi vegan-users and programmers, > > Can anybody tell me how the function vectorfit (envfit) computes arrow > lengths (as fits of a metric variable onto an ordination) exactly? I > understand the scaling bit in the end, but have troubles

[R-sig-eco] vegan: envfit (vectorfit)

2009-09-15 Thread gabriel singer
Hi vegan-users and programmers, Can anybody tell me how the function vectorfit (envfit) computes arrow lengths (as fits of a metric variable onto an ordination) exactly? I understand the scaling bit in the end, but have troubles to understand how actually the direction and strength of gradient

[R-sig-eco] Repeated measures model in R

2009-09-15 Thread Manuel SpĂ­nola
Dear list members, I would like to run a repeated measure model in R and I would like to have your advice on how to parameterize the model and which package and function should I use.. I have: Disease rate (number of cases x 1000 people): the response variable County (it would be the subject