[R-sig-eco] Problems with vegdist in Vegan

Manuel Spínola mspinola at una.ac.cr
Thu Nov 27 23:40:21 CET 2008


Dear list members,

I am runnig a NMDS in Vegan (version 1.13.2, Windows) and I get the 
following message with the function vegdist:

 > aves.dis <- vegdist(avesp.esp, dist="jaccard")
Warning messages:
1: In vegdist(avesp.esp, dist = "jaccard") :
  you have empty rows: their dissimilarities may be meaningless in 
method bray

2: In vegdist(avesp.esp, dist = "jaccard") : missing values in results

I have sites (point counts) without species, is it a problem?
Thank you very much in advance.
Best,

Manuel Spínola

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