[R-sig-eco] biplot with most important species

stephen sefick ssefick at gmail.com
Wed Oct 12 14:12:56 CEST 2016


Hi Bjorn,

I have done this in the past using ggplot2. I think that I plotted
everything, but only labeled those that were above some threshold. In other
words, I changed the label in the input data to "". I think that is how I
solved this problem.
HTH,

Stephen

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 5:44 AM, Bjorn <bjorn.tytgat at ugent.be> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> there might be a simple solution to do this, but I don't seem to manage to
> find it. I have done a PCA using vegan. I now want to create a biplot with
> only those species that explain a certain (cumulative) amount of the
> variation along the first 2 PC axes (in order to keep things clear). How
> could this be done?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Bjorn
>
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