primer (version 0.1)

clogistic: Continuous Logistic Growth

Description

A function for continuous logistic growth, for use with ode in the deSolve package.

Usage

clogistic(times, y, parms)

Arguments

times

Times points that will return N

y

N

parms

a vector of logistic growth parameters

Value

• Returns of list of one component (required by ode).

Details

The user does not put these directly into this function, but rather uses ode in the deSolve package.

References

Lotka, A.J. 1956. Elements of Mathematical Biology. Dover Publications, Inc..

Stevens. M.H.H. 2009. A Primer of Ecology with R. Use R! Series. Springer.

See Also

dlogistic, levins, lvcomp2

Examples

library(deSolve)
p <- c(1,.01)
time <- 1:10
initialN <- 10
out <- ode(y=initialN, times=time, func=clogistic, parms=p) 
plot(time, out[,-1], type='l')