OrdData function

Data ordering

Ordinates both community and explanatory matrices based on the first RDA score.

OrdData(x, y, axis = 1, method = NA, ...)

Arguments

• x: explanatory matrix;
• y: community matrix;
• axis: the RDA axis in which the ordering should be based. Defaults to axis=1
• method: standardization method (described in decostand) to be applied on y before the RDA analysis. If NA (default), no transformation is performed.
• ...: furhter parameters passed to decostand and vegan::rda;

Returns

An object of class "ord", which is a list consisting of:

1. xo: the ordered explanatory matrix
2. yo: the ordered community matrix (non-transformed)
3. x: the original explanatory matrix
4. y: the original community matrix

Examples

data(sim1)
sim1.o<-OrdData(x=sim1$envi, y=sim1$comm)
sim1.o<-OrdData(x=sim1$envi, y=sim1$comm, method="hellinger")

Author(s)

Danilo Candido Vieira