Re: [R-sig-eco] NMDS vegan

2010-10-27 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 23:03 -0400, Soumi Ray wrote: Hi all, Finally I could get a NMDS plot! My first venture in R! I used ordiplot in vegan to make the graph - I have three categories of sites (A-site#1-4, B-site#5-15, C=site#16-22) - is it possible to represent these three cateories with

[R-sig-eco] Relating species abundance and cover

2010-10-27 Thread Philip Dixon
Karen, I suggest you step back and ask two questions: 1) what are you trying to do? (i.e. what is the real goal?) 2) what do you do it to? (i.e. what's the appropriate data?) Do you want to construct a model or estimate correlations? Your detailed questions suggest that your real interest

[R-sig-eco] Relating species abundance and cover

2010-10-27 Thread Philip Dixon
Karen, I suggest you step back and ask two questions: 1) what are you trying to do? (i.e. what is the real goal?) 2) what do you do it to? (i.e. what's the appropriate data?) Do you want to construct a model or estimate correlations? Your detailed questions suggest that your real interest

Re: [R-sig-eco] NMDS vegan

2010-10-27 Thread John Jay Wiley Jr.
This is not necessarily an R method, but may be useful to some. In Excel, one can quickly replace blank cells with a particular value (e.g., 0, NA) by the following method: 1) Select the data region 2) ctrl+g (Go To) 3) Click special 4) Select blanks 5) Click OK [All blanks will now be