[R-sig-eco] anyone using vegan

[Bruce Miller]

Hi all,

Anyone experienced with vegan, or possibly other R packages for 
ecological data?
I am working with a database that includes relative abundance data that 
can be exported as densities by locations or date and summered by night 
as these are bats.  So the question is the data format needed to 
generate rarefaction curves, species association metrics, diversity 
indices and the rest of the usual ecological analytics in vegan or other 
R packages that include ecological data processing.

Once I have the output from the Access DB defined I can automate 
generation of the files to open in R and run the required modules.

Anyone able to provide some suggestions/guidance?   I need to create the 
export form in Access so that all is in the correct format to be opened 
in R and the DF is correct for eh package(s).
Once processed by vegan etc. then write the results to a file.

Tnx.

Bruce


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Conservation Ecologist
Neotropical Bat Projects


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