Re: [R-sig-eco] data structures for ecological data

2014-11-19 Thread Peter Solymos
Jason, The segments in 'mefa' just add a 3rd dimension to the object, but that does not limit accessing the stored information. Sample attributes can have spatial information, but it is not specifically designed to support spatial analysis. More concrete feature requests are welcome. There is an

Re: [R-sig-eco] data structures for ecological data

2014-11-19 Thread Hyatt Green
Check out the picante package. That might help... Good luck, Hyatt On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Law, Jason wrote: > Hello all, > > This is a general question about data structures for what I'll call > generically 'organism occurrence data'. Most of the packages for dealing > with ecology/ph

[R-sig-eco] data structures for ecological data

2014-11-19 Thread Law, Jason
Hello all, This is a general question about data structures for what I'll call generically 'organism occurrence data'. Most of the packages for dealing with ecology/phylogenetic data in R deal with some combination of occurrence data (sample unit x taxa), site/sample data (data about the sampli