mefa (version 1.0-4)

mefa-package: Faunistic Count Data Handling and Reporting

Description

R package for faunistic count data handling and reporting. The name 'mefa' stands for the term 'metafaunistics' indicating that handling of basic data is only the first, but the most critical and sometimes most time consuming part of data analysis. It contains functions to create and manage objects combining basic faunistic (sample/species/count or crosstabulated) count data and sample/species attribute tables. Segments within the count data and samples with zero count can be indicated and used in subsequent operations. Reports can be generated in plain text or LaTeX format. Objects provided by this package are: sscount for catch results of a field experiment referencedaccording to samples and species, samples with zero total count can be indicated, rows can be assignet to segments. xcount for sample/species crosstabulation of an object of class sscount, samples with zero total count are retained, one xcount object refers to one segment only. xorder contains sample or species specific attributes, subsetted and ordered according to rows/columns of an object of class xcount. mefa contains data of an xcount and two xorder objects (for sample and species attributes). Utility functions are provided to check and manipulate objects.

Details

ll{ Package: mefa Type: Package Version: 1.0-4 Date: 2008-02-11 License: GPL-2 }

References

http://www.univet.hu/users/psolymos/personal/

Examples

library(mefa)
demo(dolina)               ## Demo showning possible usage of 'mefa' objects
mefadocs("ChangeLog")      ## Browse version history