[R] Adonis and nmds help and questions for a novice.

[Sarah Goslee]

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Gavin Simpson <gavin.simpson at ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 08:45 +0000, Ashley Houlden wrote:
>> Hi,
> <snip />
>> #distance matrix of samples using bray curtis
>> d= bcdist(mydata, rmzero=FALSE)
>
> In addition, you don't necessarily need ecodist for the bray curtis
> distance. vegdist() in vegan will compute this for you.
>
> Not that there is anything wrong with ecodist I hasten to add - just
> that you can do this all in vegan if you wanted.

Because ecodist is awesome. :) But there's no need to mix and match; vegan
and ecodist do many of the same things (for historical reasons).

Sarah

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