Re: [R-sig-eco] Package bio.infer: get.taxonomic() hangs R after editing taxa list

2012-12-12 Thread Eduard Szöcs
Hai Rich, Have a look at our recently released taxize-package. However we some some problems with the ITIS-API, too. (Maybe some server issues?) See https://github.com/ropensci/taxize_/issues/72 However with taxize you can also query the NCBI taxonomy browser as alternative: df -

Re: [R-sig-eco] Vegan metaMDS: unusual first run stress values with large data set

2012-12-12 Thread Jari Oksanen
Hello R-Community, First my thanks to Ewan Isherwood who turned our attention to this issue and sent his data file to us for analysing the situation. It seems that the default convergence criteria are too slack in monoMDS() that was the ordination engine of metaMDS() in this case. Good news