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

[Peter Solymos]

Jason,

The segments in 'mefa' just add a 3rd dimension to the object, but that
does not limit accessing the stored information. Sample attributes can have
spatial information, but it is not specifically designed to support spatial
analysis. More concrete feature requests are welcome.

There is an update of 'mefa' called 'mefa4', and also Steve Walker's
'multitable' package, none of them comes with pre-built spatial analytics
capabilities but might worth checking out.

Cheers,

Peter

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On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Hyatt Green <hyatt.green at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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