LoopAnalyst (version 1.0-4)

make.cem: Compute the Community Effect Matrix

Description

Validates and community matrix and computes its associated community effect matrix.

Usage

make.cem(CM, status=FALSE, out=FALSE)

Arguments

CM

A valid community matrix.

status

Switches on an element-by-element progress indicator when set to TRUE. Set to FALSE by default.

out

Switches on formatting of community effect matrix element output from "-1", "0", "1", "NA" to "-", "0", "+", and "?" respectively when set to TRUE. Set to FALSE by default.

Value

• A community effect matrix

Details

The supplied matrix is validated as a community matrix, and the community effect matrix (i.e. table of predictions) is computed. Ambiguous effects are represented by link{NA}.

References

Puccia, C. J. and Levins, R. (1986) Qualitative Modeling of Complex Systems: An Introduction to Loop Analysis and Time Averaging. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

See Also

make.cm.

Examples

## compute community effect matrix
data(community.matrix)
make.cem(community.matrix)