[R-sig-eco] mvpart alternatives and machine learning multivariate analysis

[Gavin Simpson]

Right, but mvabund fits quite different types of model to that fitted
in a multivariate tree, which can be seen as an unsupervised
constrained clustering of the multivariate species response matrix.

All the best

Gavin

On 24 June 2017 at 10:02, Torsten Hauffe <torsten.hauffe at gmail.com> wrote:
> As far as I remember, on Windows you will need to download and install the
> Rtools first (https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/) because some
> parts of mvpart need to be compiled.
>
> You can analyse multiple species-environment relationships with the mvabund
> package. This is not fancy machine-learning but solid likelihood statistic.
>
> HTH,
> Torsten
>
> On 24 June 2017 at 11:57, Ralf Schäfer <senator at ecotoxicology.de> wrote:
>
>> Manuel,
>>
>> I just checked, it is currently still compatible. So you can download from
>> the archive and install from source - at least on Linux and OS X, nut sure
>> about Windows.
>> See Session information below:
>>
>> > R version 3.4.0 (2017-04-21)
>> > Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)
>> > Running under: macOS Sierra 10.12.5
>> >
>> > Matrix products: default
>> > BLAS: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/
>> Resources/lib/libRblas.0.dylib
>> > LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/
>> Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib
>> >
>> > locale:
>> > [1] de_DE.UTF-8/de_DE.UTF-8/de_DE.UTF-8/C/de_DE.UTF-8/de_DE.UTF-8
>> >
>> > attached base packages:
>> > [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>> >
>> > other attached packages:
>> > [1] mvpart_1.6-2
>> >
>> > loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> > [1] compiler_3.4.0
>>
>>
>> However, there are certainly other packages that can partition
>> multivariate ecological data, though I am not aware of other packages for
>> use with multivariate regression trees.
>>
>> Regards
>> Ralf
>>
>>
>>
>> > Am 24.06.2017 um 17:47 schrieb Manuel Spínola <mspinola10 at gmail.com>:
>> >
>> > Thank you Ralf,
>> >
>> > But I guess is not going to be newer versions and could be incompatible
>> with newer version of R, so at some moment there will be no accessibility
>> to the package.
>> >
>> > Manuel
>> >
>> > 2017-06-24 5:25 GMT-06:00 Ralf Schäfer <senator at ecotoxicology.de
>> <mailto:senator at ecotoxicology.de>>:
>> > Dear Manuel
>> >
>> > despite it has been removed, it should still work.
>> > At least I used it last year - just install the version from the archive
>> manually:
>> > https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/mvpart/ <
>> https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/mvpart/>
>> >
>> > Best regards
>> > Ralf
>> >
>> >
>> >> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 13:59:13 -0600
>> >> From: Manuel Sp?nola <mspinola10 at gmail.com <mailto:mspinola10 at gmail.com
>> >>
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>> >> Dear list members,
>> >>
>> >> As mvpart has been removed form the CRAN repository, Is there any r
>> package
>> >> that do similar analysis (multivariate partitioning)?
>> >>
>> >> Also, is there any other machine learning technique to do multivariate
>> >> analysis as done in ecology to asses multiple species-environment
>> >> relationships?
>> >>
>> >> Thank you very much in advance,
>> >>
>> >> Manuel
>> >>
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