[R-sig-eco] data structures for ecological data

[Hyatt Green]

Check out the picante package. That might help...

Good luck,
Hyatt

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Law, Jason <Jason.Law at portlandoregon.gov>
wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> This is a general question about data structures for what I'll call
> generically 'organism occurrence data'. Most of the packages for dealing
> with ecology/phylogenetic data in R deal with some combination of
> occurrence data (sample unit x taxa), site/sample data (data about the
> sampling units), trait data (data about the taxa), and taxonomic (some kind
> of tree, taxonomic or phylogenetic). I started to look around and see if
> there was a package that provided data structures and some generic
> functionality for manipulating this kind of data in R; I think I'm looking
> for the "organism occurrence" equivalent of the "sp" package for spatial
> data. The mefa package does some of this, but the idea of 'segments'
> appears to introduce some limitations. And it doesn't have things like
> accessors that I would expect for data structures (coords for
> SpatialDataFrames). The phylobase package does this for phylogenetic data,
> but I'm looking for something that would include occurrence data.
>
> Is there currently a package that provides data structures (other than
> mefa) for this type of data. If not, has anyone ever talked about trying to
> put something like this together?
>
> Jason Law
> Statistician, City of Portland
> Water Pollution Control Laboratory
> 6543 N Burlington Ave,
> Portland, OR
>
> 503-823-1038
> jason.law at portlandoregon.gov
>
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Hyatt Green, PhD
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Department of Environmental and Forest Biology
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