[R-sig-eco] save vegemite{vegan} table

[Michael Denslow]

Thank you Roland,

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Roland Kaiser <roland.kaiser at sbg.ac.at> wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> vegemite returns a list with two elements
> that can be used to index sites and species.
> Simply use these vectors to reorder your data set.
>
> data(dune)
> vm <- vegemite(dune, use = decorana(dune))
> tb <- t(dune[vm$sites, vm$species]) # transpose matrix to have species as
> rows
> write.csv(tb, "foo.csv")
>
> HTH,

This is very helpful.

Michael

>
> Roland
>
>> Dear r-sig-ecology,
>>
>> I am attempting to save the table that prints when I run the function
>> vegemite(). I would like to paste it into a spreadsheet if possible.
>> Here is what I have tried.
>>
>>
>> library(vegan)
>> data(varespec)
>> vege.test <- vegemite(varespec, scale="Hult")
>>
>> # mac method for copying to clipboard
>> # replace pipe('pbcopy','w') with 'clipboard' on windows
>> write.table(vege.test,pipe('pbcopy','w'), sep = "\t", col.names = NA)
>>
>> # I have also tried
>> vege.test <- capture.output(vegemite(varespec, scale="Hult"))
>> write.table(vege.test,pipe('pbcopy','w'), sep = "\t", col.names = NA)
>>
>> Neither of these seems to paste correctly into a spreadsheet.
>> I think the problem is not the function, but that I don't understand
>> how to properly work with lists ...
>>
>> Thanks for any suggestions,
>> Michael
>>
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>> Michael Denslow
>>
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Michael Denslow

I.W. Carpenter Jr. Herbarium [BOON]
Department of Biology
Appalachian State University
Boone, North Carolina U.S.A.
-- AND --
Communications Manager
Southeast Regional Network of Expertise and Collections
sernec.org

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