Re: [R-sig-eco] A request for suggestions about FD

2011-08-24 Thread Etienne Laliberte
Dear Zhifeng, You have already sent me three personal emails about this, and I've already responded that you should try with calc.FRic = FALSE. What is likely happening is that R struggles to compute the multidimensional convex hull volume with your data -- this is explained in ?dbFD. Why don't

Re: [R-sig-eco] adonis question

2011-06-24 Thread Etienne Laliberte
Dear Kay, I ran your code and found no significant interactions. You just got unlucky with rnorm(), as can happen. Try it again. Cheers, Etienne -Original Message- From: r-sig-ecology-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-sig-ecology-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Kay Cecil Cichini

Re: [R-sig-eco] equation 9 Peres-Neto et al. 2006

2011-04-07 Thread Etienne Laliberte
Dear Ivan, In such situations, it's probably best to contact the corresponding author first. Etienne -Original Message- From: r-sig-ecology-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-sig-ecology-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Ivan Jimenez Sent: Friday, 8 April 2011 4:19 AM To:

Re: [R-sig-eco] ordination and clustering with continous and categorical variables

2010-12-21 Thread Etienne Laliberte
Dear Mario, For the Gower dissimilarity you may want to check Library(FD) ?gowdis which allows weights to be assigned to traits/variables (sometimes useful), and implements Podani's 1999 approach for ordinal traits/variables. Cheers Etienne -Original Message- From:

Re: [R-sig-eco] adonis to test difference in sums of squares partitioning across treatments?

2010-12-16 Thread Etienne Laliberte
Dear Andy, For testing the null hypothesis of no land use effect, what you suggest does not take into account the nested structure of your design (with land use nested in location). In ?adonis: If the experimental design has nestedness, then use strata to test hypotheses. For instance, imagine

Re: [R-sig-eco] SEM with time series?

2010-11-29 Thread Etienne Laliberte
Dear Erika, You may want to consider this approach: Shipley, B. 2009. Confirmatory path analysis in a generalized multilevel context. Ecology 90:363-368. Cheers Etienne -Original Message- From: r-sig-ecology-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-sig-ecology-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf