Re: [R-sig-eco] Recommended R package for analyzing community data set? - nested design, stratified random sampling, covariates

2012-01-17 Thread Dave Roberts
Dear Laura, David is certainly correct that vegan would provide a wealth of tools for the analysis of your data. More generally, if you go to CRAN and browse the environmetrics Task View you will see an review of many packages suitable for specific analyses you may be interested in.

[R-sig-eco] Recommended R package for analyzing community data set? - nested design, stratified random sampling, covariates

2012-01-15 Thread Laura S
Dear all: May you recommend an R package for analyzing this data set? I would greatly appreciate any thoughts you can provide. I. Study goals This study examines soil crust (lichens and bryophytes) recovery and succession in fields that underwent different levels of disturbance. II.

Re: [R-sig-eco] Recommended R package for analyzing community data set? - nested design, stratified random sampling, covariates

2012-01-15 Thread David Valentim Dias
Default packages of any installation of R can perform many types of regression (IMO regression can show you something). Your goal seems to wide for me, maybe you can provide more information like hypotheses? Any google query using community and R will show *vegan* (popular package for community