[R-sig-eco] rarefaction not working with the min species number

[Brian Inouye]

Although rounding to the nearest integer will make the code run without 
an error, it seems like then you are making the implicit assumption that 
every unit of abundance is an independent sample with equal probability 
of occurrence, equivalent to independent individuals.  While I can 
imagine that is justifiable for some datasets, in other cases that would 
be a dubious assumption.
-Brian

On 4/25/2012 6:00 AM, r-sig-ecology-request at r-project.org wrote:
> From: Stephen Sefick<sas0025 at auburn.edu>
> To: Jari Oksanen<jari.oksanen at oulu.fi>
> Cc: r-sig-ecology<r-sig-ecology at r-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [R-sig-eco] rarefaction not working with the min species
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> Jari,
>
> Many thanks, that did the trick.  Here is a little bit of code that
> took my non-integer data (abundance estimates), rounds, and turns the
> numbers into a data.frame with all integers col classes.
>
> community_round2int<- function(L){