Em Sáb, 2008-07-19 às 11:07 -0300, Thiago Souza escreveu: > Hi folks! > > I'm a beginner and I'm learning how to use R. > > I need to calculate the value of Simpson Diversity Index (*D*=1-Σ*pi*^2; > where *p* is the relative abundance of the species* i*) of one sample (e.g., > diversity of bromeliad spiders) and test the significance of this value. For > this I'll need to randomize samples while conserving the observed species > abundance and sample-size distributions. After this, in need to repeate > these randomizations 10.000 times to form a null distribution and assessing > the statistical significance by compare the observad D value with the null > distribution. > But unfortunately, I don't know how to run this procedure in R software. > > Please, can anybody help me? > > Thank you in advance >
Thiago, If I understood your problem do you solve using sample, look this example data<-rep(letters[1:6],10) sample<-sample (data,10) sample table(sample) sample<-sample (data,10) sample table(sample) For repeat the sample using "for" for (i in 1:10000){ commands } -- Bernardo Rangel Tura, M.D,MPH,Ph.D National Institute of Cardiology Brazil ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.