[R] cannot find function "simpleRDA2"

[R. Michael Weylandt]

Hi,

simpleRDA2 is still in the vegan package, but it is not exported.
I.e., the author only intends it for internal use and he doesn't make
it available to end users directly. If you need to get at it, you can
use

getAnywhere("simpleRDA2")

which will show it.

If you need to make it available to your scripts, you can add the line

simpleRDA2 <- vegan:::simpleRDA2 # Note three colons

which will make a copy in your workspace (global environment) that
your functions can access.

Best,
Michael

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Lindsey Leigh Sloat
<llsloat at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to run the command "forward.sel.par," however I receive
> the error message: "Error: could not find function 'simpleRDA2'." I
> have the vegan library loaded. The documentation on "varpart" has not
> helped me to understand why I cannot call this function. Maybe I am
> missing something obvious because I am still an 'R' novice.
>
> Below is a reproducible example for you.
>
> Thank you always for all of your help.
> Lindsey
>
> example:
>
> X=matrix(rnorm(30),10,3)
> Y=matrix(rnorm(50),10,5)
>
> forward.sel.par <- function(Y, X, alpha = 0.05, K = nrow(X)-1,
> R2thresh = 0.99, R2more = 0.001, adjR2thresh = 0.99, Yscale = FALSE,
> verbose=TRUE)
> ##
> ## Parametric forward selection of explanatory variables in regression and RDA.
> ## Y is the response, X is the table of explanatory variables.
> ##
> ## If Y is univariate, this function implements FS in regression.
> ## If Y is multivariate, this function implements FS using the F-test described
> ## by Miller and Farr (1971). This test requires that
> ##   -- the Y variables be standardized,
> ##   -- the error in the response variables be normally distributed
> (to be verified by the user).
> ##
> ## This function uses 'simpleRDA2' and 'RsquareAdj' developed for
> 'varpart' in 'vegan'.
> ##
> ##                Pierre Legendre & Guillaume Blanchet, May 2007
> ##
> ## Arguments --
> ##
> ## Y         Response data matrix with n rows and m columns containing
> quantitative variables.
> ## X         Explanatory data matrix with n rows and p columns
> containing quantitative variables.
> ## alpha     Significance level. Stop the forward selection procedure
> if the p-value of a variable is higher than alpha. The default is
> 0.05.
> ## K         Maximum number of variables to be selected. The default
> is one minus the number of rows.
> ## R2thresh  Stop the forward selection procedure if the R-square of
> the model exceeds the stated value. This parameter can vary from 0.001
> to 1.
> ## R2more    Stop the forward selection procedure if the difference in
> model R-square with the previous step is lower than R2more. The
> default setting is 0.001.
> ## adjR2thresh Stop the forward selection procedure if the adjusted
> R-square of the model exceeds the stated value. This parameter can
> take any value (positive or negative) smaller than 1.
> ## Yscale    Standardize the variables in table Y to variance 1. The
> default setting is FALSE. The setting is automatically changed to TRUE
> if Y contains more than one variable. This is a validity condition for
> the parametric test of significance (Miller and Farr 1971).
> ##
> ## Reference:
> ## Miller, J. K., and S. D. Farr. 1971. Bimultivariate redundancy: a
> comprehensive measure of
> ##    interbattery relationship. Multivariate Behavioral Research 6: 313-324.
>
> {
>   require(vegan)
>   FPval <- function(R2cum,R2prev,n,mm,p)
>     ## Compute the partial F and p-value after adding a single
> explanatory variable to the model.
>     ## In FS, the number of df of the numerator of F is always 1. See
> Sokal & Rohlf 1995, eq 16.14.
>     ##
>     ## The amendment, based on Miller and Farr (1971), consists in
> multiplying the numerator and
>     ## denominator df by 'p', the number of variables in Y, when
> computing the p-value.
>     ##
>     ##                Pierre Legendre, May 2007
>     {
>       df2 <- (n-1-mm)
>       Fstat <- ((R2cum-R2prev)*df2) / (1-R2cum)
>       pval <- pf(Fstat,1*p,df2*p,lower.tail=FALSE)
>       return(list(Fstat=Fstat,pval=pval))
>     }
>
>   Y <- as.matrix(Y)
>   X <- apply(as.matrix(X),2,scale,center=TRUE,scale=TRUE)
>   var.names = colnames(as.data.frame(X))
>   n <- nrow(X)
>   m <- ncol(X)
>   if(nrow(Y) != n) stop("Numbers of rows not the same in Y and X")
>   p <- ncol(Y)
>   if(p > 1) {
>     Yscale = TRUE
>     if(verbose) cat("The variables in response matrix Y have been
> standardized",'\n')
>   }
>   Y <- apply(Y,2,scale,center=TRUE,scale=Yscale)
>   SS.Y <- sum(Y^2)
>
>   X.out <- c(1:m)
>
>   ## Find the first variable X to include in the model
>   R2prev <- 0
>   R2cum <- 0
>   for(j in 1:m) {
>     toto <- simpleRDA2(Y,X[,j],SS.Y)
>     if(toto$Rsquare > R2cum) {
>       R2cum <- toto$Rsquare
>       no.sup <- j
>     }
>   }
>   mm <- 1
>   FP <- FPval(R2cum,R2prev,n,mm,p)
>   if(FP$pval <= alpha) {
>     adjRsq <- RsquareAdj(R2cum,n,mm)
>     res1 <- var.names[no.sup]
>     res2 <- no.sup
>     res3 <- R2cum
>     res4 <- R2cum
>     res5 <- adjRsq
>     res6 <- FP$Fstat
>     res7 <- FP$pval
>     X.out[no.sup] <- 0
>     delta <- R2cum
>   } else {
>     stop("Procedure stopped (alpha criterion): pvalue for variable
> ",no.sup," is ",FP$pval)
>   }
>
>   ## Add variables X to the model
>   while((FP$pval <= alpha) & (mm <= K) & (R2cum <= R2thresh) & (delta
>>= R2more) & (adjRsq <= adjR2thresh)) {
>     mm <- mm+1
>     R2prev <- R2cum
>     R2cum <- 0
>     for(j in 1:m) {
>       if(X.out[j] != 0) {
>         toto <- simpleRDA2(Y,X[,c(res2,j)],SS.Y)
>         if(toto$Rsquare > R2cum) {
>           R2cum <- toto$Rsquare
>           no.sup <- j
>         }
>       }
>     }
>     FP <- FPval(R2cum,R2prev,n,mm,p)
>     delta <- R2cum-R2prev
>     adjRsq <- RsquareAdj(R2cum,n,mm)
>     res1 <- c(res1,var.names[no.sup])
>     res2 <- c(res2,no.sup)
>     res3 <- c(res3,delta)
>     res4 <- c(res4,R2cum)
>     res5 <- c(res5,adjRsq)
>     res6 <- c(res6,FP$Fstat)
>     res7 <- c(res7,FP$pval)
>     X.out[no.sup] <- 0
>   }
>   if(verbose) {
>     if(FP$pval > alpha)  cat("Procedure stopped (alpha criterion):
> pvalue for variable ",no.sup," is ",FP$pval,'\n')
>     if(mm > K)           cat("Procedure stopped (K criterion): mm =
> ",mm," is larger than ",K," after including variable ",no.sup,'\n')
>     if(R2cum > R2thresh) cat("Procedure stopped (R2thresh criterion):
> R2cum for variable ",no.sup," is ",R2cum,'\n')
>     if(delta < R2more)   cat("Procedure stopped (R2more criterion):
> delta for variable ",no.sup," is ",delta,'\n')
>     if(adjRsq>adjR2thresh) cat("Procedure stopped (adjR2thresh
> criterion): adjRsq for variable ",no.sup," is ",adjRsq,'\n')
>   }
>
>   res <- data.frame(res1,res2,res3,res4,res5,res6,res7)
>   colnames(res) <- c("variable","order","R2","R2cum","AdjR2Cum","F","pval")
>   if((FP$pval > alpha) | (mm > K) | (R2cum > R2thresh) | (delta <
> R2more) | (adjRsq > adjR2thresh))  res <- res[1:(mm-1),]
>
>   return(res)
> }
>
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