This function allows you to calculate the relative importance index (RI) per species, published by Pardo-de-Santayana (2003).
Usage
RIs(data)
Arguments
data
is an ethnobotany data set with column 1 'informant' and 2 'sp_name' as row identifiers of informants and of species names respectively.
The rest of the columns are the identified ethnobotany use categories. The data should be populated with counts of uses per person (should be 0 or 1 values).