Re: [R-sig-eco] measure of segregation

2013-03-11 Thread Marcelino de la Cruz
Hello, in adddtition to what Alex points, I would also recomend function K1K2 in the package ecespa: it implements differences of uivariate and bivariate Ripley's K-functions (based on spatstat) to test for aggregation and segregation of point patterns in the way suggested by Dixon (2002,

Re: [R-sig-eco] nested.npmanova -- distance matrices as input?

2013-03-11 Thread Jari Oksanen
Erin, R is open source: you can see the source code if in doubt. Looking at the source code, the situation is a bit unclear and depends on the details of your data that I don't know. It seems that nested.npmanova() accepst R distances structures of class dist. If your Unifrac distances

Re: [R-sig-eco] nested.npmanova -- distance matrices as input?

2013-03-11 Thread Erin Nuccio
Hi Jari, Yes, my distance matrix is of class dist, so it sounds like my unifrac dissimilarities were handled correctly. Thank you! Erin On Mar 11, 2013, at 12:57 AM, Jari Oksanen wrote: Erin, R is open source: you can see the source code if in doubt. Looking at the source code, the

Re: [R-sig-eco] measure of segregation

2013-03-11 Thread Allen Aven
Could also take a look at the dbmss package and related publications. I recently used their M(r) function for something similar to what you describe. Marcon, E., Puech, F. Traissac, S. (2012b). Characterizing the relative spatial structure of point patterns. International Journal of Ecology,

Re: [R-sig-eco] quantifying directed dependence of environmental factors

2013-03-11 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 11:13 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 7 Mar 2013, Philippi, Tom wrote: I would look at packages bio.infer, paltran, fossil, and analogue, and search to see if anyone has pushed them in the direction you want to go. To this list I would add Steve Juggins' excellent

Re: [R-sig-eco] quantifying directed dependence of environmental factors

2013-03-11 Thread Gavin Simpson
Hi Jay, What you describe is similar to research conducted at UCL by myself and colleagues and also as part of an EU project that finished a few years ago now. Since then, my thoughts on this have expanded a little and Sarah's point about path analysis was where I would have gone next if I was

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Re: [R-sig-eco] quantifying directed dependence of environmental factors

2013-03-11 Thread Jay Kerns
Dear Gavin, On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Gavin Simpson gavin.simp...@ucl.ac.uk wrote: Hi Jay, What you describe is similar to research conducted at UCL by myself and colleagues and also as part of an EU project that finished a few years ago now. Since then, my thoughts on this have