dispRity (version 1.5.0)

combine.subsets: Combines or cleans subsets.

Description

Combines multiple subsets together or cleans a subset series to contain at least n elements.

Usage

combine.subsets(data, subsets)

Arguments

data

A dispRity object.

subsets

Either a vector of the number or name of the subsets to merge or a single numeric value of the minimum of elements for each series (see details).

Value

A dispRity object containing the original matrix and subsets. NOTE: if the data are already bootstrapped/rarefied or/and disparity already calculated the operation will have to be performed again.

Details

If subset is a vector, the subsets are merged in the given input order. c(1, 3, 4) will merge subsets 1 and 3 into 4, while the opposite, c(3, 4, 1) will merge subsets 3 and 4 into 1. When a single numeric value is given, subsets are merged with the next subset until the correct number of elements for each subset is reached (apart from the last subset that gets merged with the previous one).

See Also

custom.subsets, chrono.subsets, boot.matrix, dispRity.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
## Generate subsets from a dummy matrix
dummy_matrix <- matrix(rnorm(120), 40)
dummy_subsets <- custom.subsets(dummy_matrix,
     group = list("a" = c(1:5), "b" = c(6:10), "c" = c(11:20),
                  "d" = c(21:24), "e" = c(25:30), "f" = c(31:40)))

## Merging the two first subsets
combine.subsets(dummy_subsets, c(1,2))

## Merging the three subsets by name
combine.subsets(dummy_subsets, c("d", "c", "e"))

## Merging the subsets to contain at least 20 taxa
combine.subsets(dummy_subsets, 10)

# }