[R] [R-sig-eco] extract beta.sim from dist type data (package betapart)

[Sarah Goslee]

Replied to on the R-sig-ecology list, with a request not to cross-post.

Briefly, the output is a list with named components, so can be
extracted as usual.

Sarah

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 5:50 AM, Elaine Kuo <elaine.kuo.tw at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> This is Elaine.
> I am using beta.part to calculate the beta diversity index.
> The function of beta.part can generate three kinds of beta diversity indice
> at one time.
> However, it is Simpson index that I want.
>
> The calculation result is composed of three rows and N/A columns (dist
> class).
> I do not know how to extract one of the indice in the form of dist class.
> No relevant example is found the manual.
> (I tried as.vector as below but failed.)
>
> Please kindly help and thank you in advance.
>
> Elaine
>
> Code
>  library(betapart)
>   dist.sim<-beta.pair(dataR, index.family="sor")
>
> # Unfold distance matrices into vectors
>   data.sim<-data.frame(as.vector(dist.sim))
>
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Sarah Goslee
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