Dear François,

Sorry if this message seems to be disrespectful. But it would be unfair if
I let you do what you are doing to these two researchers without saying
anything.

Did you really need to send an email to Springer "ethics.reporting"? And
did you really need to answer their question so lordly? You look like a kid
that cries for "Mom"! As a Professor, you are supposed to teach and to
encourage everyone to make the right thing. You are not supposed to
"punish" anybody!

We are members of a discussion list with the mission of sharing knowledge.
The mission of helping people with their questions and to make science
evolve with new and motivated scientists! More than that: It is a list
about R, that is a free software, which major principle is "Free
Knowledge". Further, isn't "share the knowledge" one of the missions of a
Professor, too? Your EGO can not be higher than all of these!

Just to finish: It looks like you have never downloaded any paper, software
or document from internet without the allowance of the "right owners".
Everybody knows it is not true! Look at your own message, as Jean smartly
suggested!

If we can not share knowledge in this list, I think it is time to go away!
So, good bye, enjoy the knowledge you think is yours!

Charles

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 3:16 PM, François Gillet <
francois.gillet@univ-fcomte.fr> wrote:

> Valerie and Sarah,
>
> Thank you for encouraging piracy by posting the URL of an illegal PDF of
> our book :-(
>
> By the way, just look at ?vegemite and you'll find easily the solution to
> your problem: with the argument scale="log" your numeric data will be
> converted to 1-char symbols.
>
> François
>
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> 2013/7/24 Sarah Goslee <sarah.goslee@gmail.com>
>
> > Hi Valerie,
> >
> > Did the suggestions given on the R-help list fail to work?
> >
> > You do need to provide you abundance data as one character, as specified
> in
> > ?vegemite which also gives suggestions for conversion.
> >
> > Sarah
> >
> > On Tuesday, July 23, 2013, Valerie Mucciarelli wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I am relatively new to R and I am working through the code that is
> > > provided in the book Numerical Ecology with R:
> > > http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/19243105/1919134110/name/Numerical.pdf(pg
> > > 79)
> > >
> > >  and I have run across an error message that I can't seem to figure
> out.
> > >
> > >  I am using the vegan, ade4, gclus and cluster packages. The code is as
> > > follows:
> > >
> > >  # Ordered community table
> > >  # Species are ordered by their weighted averages on site scores
> > >
> > >  or <- vegemite(spe, spe.chwo)
> > >
> > >  spe is the dataframe, here is part of it:
> > >
> > >      AGA   ANT  BON   CAL1   CAL   CER   CRY   DES  EUTH FRY
> > >  1  0.420 0.092 0.051 0.000 0.975 0.000 0.111 0.000 0.127 0
> > >  2  0.000 0.000 0.007 0.002 0.915 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.151 0
> > >  4  0.000 0.008 0.000 0.009 0.124 0.003 0.000 0.000 0.095 0
> > >  7  0.000 0.002 0.003 0.002 0.121 0.002 0.000 3.573 0.180 0
> > >  12 0.000 0.020 0.000 0.002 0.444 0.001 0.000 0.000 0.242 0
> > >  13 8.727 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.743 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.050 0
> > >  14 2.163 0.009 0.000 0.003 1.121 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.051 0
> > >  15 0.000 0.004 0.000 0.000 0.109 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.007 0
> > >  18 9.021 0.018 0.002 0.000 0.286 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.028 0
> > >  19 0.000 0.038 0.000 0.019 0.509 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.155 0
> > >
> > >  spe.chwo came from:
> > >
> > >  spe.norm <- decostand(spe, "normalize")
> > >  spe.ch <- vegdist(spe.norm, "euc")
> > >  spe.ch.UPGMA <- hclust(spe.ch, method = "average")
> > >  spe.chwo <- reorder.hclust(spe.ch.UPGMA, spe.ch)
> > >
> > >
> > >  and the error is:
> > >
> > >  Error in vegemite(spe, spe.chwo) :
> > >  Cowardly refusing to use longer than 1 char symbols:
> > >  Use scale
> > >
> > >  The data in the dataframe is biomass data recorded to 4 digits. I'm
> > > wondering if this code is not working because my data is more than one
> > > digit long.
> > >
> > >  Any suggestions or insight on how to get this code to work would be
> > > greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > >  Thank you,
> > >
> > >  Val
> > >
> > >
> >
> > --
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