On Fri, 17 Jul 2015, John Kane wrote:
Then it sounds like you are one of the experts. Do whatever you think appropriate and either set the standard for future research or get enough feedback to do even better next time. :)
John, Far from an expert, but becoming more capable with each project. Someone, somewhere, has dealt successfully with this issue in the past. So I need to keep inquiring and hoping that e-mail addresses are still valid and that I get responses. :-) Compositional data are the rule for public (e.g., economic, political, societal) and environmental chemical data, including some biological data. It seems to be unknown outside of those in academia focused on developing the mathematical theory and applying the models to their research. Regards, Rich ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.