Hi,

You could use over( ) function in order to compute the number of different
species.

You could also use spatstat::marktable

Some ideas here:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-geo/2011-May/011722.html

In vegan package, you can find a Simpson and Shannon diversity calculation
function: vegan::diversity


2012/7/2 Barnabas Daru <daruna...@gmail.com>

> Dear All,
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> I write to ask if anyone has an R code to calculate species richness per
> quarter degree grid.
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> I have a set of polygon shapefiles showing distribution of different
> species within a country.
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> I would like to first create quarter degree grids over the entire country
> and using the polygon shapefiles, to extract species richness per grid.
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> Any help with R code would be highly appreciated.
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> Barnabas Daru
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