HierDpart (version 1.5.0)

Str: Function for generating the structure for HierDpart format

Description

This function allows you to easily and automatically generate the hierarchical structure for your data. The structure files are HierDpart format working for function IDIP which is easy to construct by defining your aggregates and total number of subaggregate.

Usage

Str(nreg, r, n)

Arguments

nreg

The number of aggregates in your hierarchy.

r

A vector specifying number of populations or subpopulations within each aggregate.

n

An integer indicating the number of subaggregate.

Value

A matrix that displays your hierarchical structure.

Details

This function is designed to fit the input format for function IDIP (Chao et al, 2017). It is more easy to understand and set the hierarchical structure using this function.

References

Gaggiotti, O. E., Chao, A., Peres-Neto, P., Chiu, C. H., Edwards, C., Fortin, M. J., ... & Selkoe, K. A. (2018). Diversity from genes to ecosystems: A unifying framework to study variation across biological metrics and scales. Evolutionary Applications. Chao, A., & Chiu, C. H. (2017).User's Guide for Online program iDIP (Information-based Diversity Partitioning).

See Also

IDIP

Examples

# NOT RUN {
 #assume we are working on a metacommunity contains 16 communities,
   #there are 4 aggregates in this metacommunity, and each aggregates
   #contains 7, 4,3,2 subaggregates or communities.The structure will be:
 str1=Str(nreg=4, r=c(7,4,3,2),n=16)
 
# }