[R] FD package_dbFD error

[Vesna Gulin]

Hi Sara,

Thank you for your advice and apologies for spamming.

I will try to reorganise the arguments and if it doesn't work, will try 
r-sig-ecology.

Kind regards,
Vesna

On 2021-04-01 0:58, Sarah Goslee wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> While Bert is right that this would be a good question for
> r-sig-ecology, I think you might have made a very simple-to-fix
> mistake:
> 
> According to
> https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/FD/versions/1.0-12/topics/dbFD
> if you don't name the arguments, traits should come BEFORE sites.
> 
> If that doesn't help, take a look at the site and trait data frames
> used in the examples and see if you can figure out where you went
> wrong. If you can't, then try r-sig-ecology.
> 
> Sarah
> 
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 6:33 PM Vesna Gulin <vesna.gulin using biol.pmf.hr> 
> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> I am trying to conduct dbFD from the FD package, but it keeps giving 
>> me
>> the same error:
>> 
>> ex1 <- dbFD(sites, traits)
>> Error in dbFD(sites, traits) :
>>    Different number of species in 'x' and 'a'.
>> 
>> Ab, bb, Ci.... are species names.
>> I have tried rewriting the species names so many times and ways, but
>> nothing seems to work. I also checked for blank space but can't seem 
>> to
>> find one. Does anyone have and idea what am I doing wrong?
>> 
>> My data consists of two data frames:
>> sites
>> 
>>    X Ab Bb Ci Cb Cbm Cdo Cm Cdi Dv Edi Ee Ede Es Eb Gc La Mm Op Oc Oh 
>> Or
>> Pgr Ps Pgi Pf Pgri Po Pp Rr Ss Sl Ts Tv Tr
>> 1 A  0  0  0  0   0   0  1   0  0   0  0   0  1  0  0  0  1  0  0  0  
>> 0
>>   0  0   0  0    0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0
>> 2 B  0  0  0  0   0   0  0   0  0   0  0   0  1  0  0  0  0  2  0  0  
>> 0
>>   0  0   0  0    0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0
>> 3 C  0  0  0  0   0   0  0   0  0   0  0   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  
>> 0
>>   0  0   0  0    0  1  0  0  0  0  0  0  0
>> 4 D  0  0  0  0   0   0  0   0  0   0  0   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  
>> 0
>>   0  0   0  0    0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0
>> 5 E  0  0  0  0   0   0  0   3  2   3  0   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  4  
>> 0
>>   0  0   0  0    0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0
>> 6 F  0  0  0  0   0   0  0   0  3   0  1   0  0  4  1  8  0  1  3  2  
>> 0
>>   0  0   0  0    0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  2
>> 7 G  0  0  0  0   0   0  1   1  1   2  0   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  1  4  
>> 0
>>   0  0   0  0    0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0
>> 
>> traits
>> 
>>       X body    ration  flight     feeding       lifestyle     
>> moisture
>> 1    Ab 29.5 0.6203390    none herbivorous geo-chortobiont  
>> xerophilous
>> 2    Bb 16.0 1.0625000 reduced  omnivorous     chortobiont  
>> mesophilous
>> 3    Ci 23.5 0.5829787    full  omnivorous geo-chortobiont  
>> xerophilous
>> 4    Cb 18.0 0.6000000    full herbivorous     chortobiont  
>> mesophilous
>> 5   Cbm 18.0 0.6000000    full herbivorous     chortobiont  
>> mesophilous
>> 6   Cdo 17.5 0.6342857 reduced herbivorous     chortobiont  
>> mesophilous
>> 7    Cm 17.5 0.5914286    full herbivorous     chortobiont  
>> mesophilous
>> 8   Cdi 21.5 0.5883721 reduced herbivorous     chortobiont 
>> hygrophilous
>> 9    Dv 34.0 0.9044118 reduced carnivorous geo-chortobiont  
>> mesophilous
>> 10  Edi 27.0 0.7222222    none  omnivorous     thamnobiont  
>> xerophilous
>> 11   Ee 25.0 0.6400000    none  omnivorous     thamnobiont  
>> mesophilous
>> 12  Ede 20.5 0.5902439    none herbivorous     chortobiont  
>> xerophilous
>> 13   Es 25.5 0.9803922    none  omnivorous     thamnobiont  
>> mesophilous
>> 14   Eb 18.0 0.6416667 reduced herbivorous     chortobiont  
>> mesophilous
>> 15   Gc 22.5 0.4555556    none  omnivorous        geobiont  
>> mesophilous
>> 16   La 13.0 0.9807692    none herbivorous     chortobiont  
>> mesophilous
>> 17   Mm 18.0 1.0972222    none  omnivorous geo-chortobiont  
>> xerophilous
>> 18   Op 12.0 0.6666667    full  omnivorous     thamnobiont  
>> xerophilous
>> 19   Oc 21.0 0.5690476    full herbivorous        geobiont  
>> xerophilous
>> 20   Oh 15.5 0.5967742 reduced herbivorous     chortobiont  
>> mesophilous
>> 21   Or 15.5 0.7193548 reduced herbivorous     chortobiont  
>> mesophilous
>> 22  Pgr 17.0 1.0588235    none  omnivorous     thamnobiont  
>> mesophilous
>> 23   Ps 21.5 1.0465116    none  omnivorous     thamnobiont  
>> mesophilous
>> 24  Pgi 14.0 0.5500000    none herbivorous     chortobiont  
>> mesophilous
>> 25   Pf 26.5 0.9622642    none  omnivorous     thamnobiont  
>> mesophilous
>> 26 Pgri 17.5 1.0428571    none  omnivorous     thamnobiont  
>> mesophilous
>> 27   Po 17.0 0.8970588    none herbivorous     chortobiont  
>> mesophilous
>> 28   Pp 17.5 0.6542857 reduced herbivorous     chortobiont  
>> mesophilous
>> 29   Rr 17.5 0.8857143 reduced  omnivorous     chortobiont  
>> mesophilous
>> 30   Ss 22.5 0.5733333    full herbivorous     chortobiont  
>> mesophilous
>> 31   Sl 20.5 0.6268293 reduced herbivorous     chortobiont  
>> mesophilous
>> 32   Ts 12.5 0.4720000 reduced herbivorous        geobiont 
>> hygrophilous
>> 33   Tv 33.0 0.7803030    full carnivorous     thamnobiont  
>> mesophilous
>> 34   Tr 20.0 0.9000000    none  omnivorous        geobiont 
>> hygrophilous
>> 
>> 
>> Thank you in advance and kind regards,
>> Vesna
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Vesna Gulin,  Research and Teaching Assistant
>> Department of Biology
>> Faculty of Science
>> University of Zagreb
>> Rooseveltov trg 6, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
>> 
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