[R-sig-eco] residual with protest in vegan

2008-11-16 Thread Christopher Chizinski
I am using protest (in vegan) to assess the concordance between NMDS scores, as shown below: fishbug.fit - protest(scores.bug, scores.fish,permutations = ) I would like to get the average residuals from protest. When I use residuals(), resids.fit-residuals(fishbug.fit) which residuals

Re: [R-sig-eco] GAM with a Gamma error structure

2008-11-16 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 17:58 -0500, Sally Roman wrote: Hi- I'm try to run a GAM with a Gamma distribution, but am getting an error message that there are non positive values allowed for the gamma family. I do not have any negative values for my response or explanatory variables.

Re: [R-sig-eco] Spatial ANCOVA in R

2008-11-16 Thread Carsten Dormann
Dear Camilo, I hope I interpret correctly what you want. In AN(C)OVA you are primary interested to see, whether a variable significantly contributes to the explanation of the observed variance, right? Spatial models by and large try to do away with spatial autocorrelation (SAC), so that