ethnobotanyR (version 0.1.5)

NUs: Number of Uses (NU)

Description

Calculates the number of uses (NU) per species.

Usage

NUs(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).

Examples

# NOT RUN {
#Use built-in ethnobotany data example
NUs(ethnobotanydata)

#Generate random dataset of three informants uses for four species
eb_data <- data.frame(replicate(10,sample(0:1,20,rep=TRUE)))
names(eb_data) <- gsub(x = names(eb_data), pattern = "X", replacement = "Use_")  
eb_data$informant<-sample(c('User_1', 'User_2', 'User_3'), 20, replace=TRUE)
eb_data$sp_name<-sample(c('sp_1', 'sp_2', 'sp_3', 'sp_4'), 20, replace=TRUE)
NUs(eb_data)

# }