mefa (version 1.1-4)

mxcount: Merge Two Objects of Class 'xcount'

Description

The function merges two objects of class 'xcount'. Rows with zero total counts are handled internally by functions msscount and ttsscount.

Usage

mxcount(xc1, xc2, segment = "unspecified")

Arguments

xc1

an object of class 'xcount'.

xc2

an object of class 'xcount'.

segment

arbitrary name of the segment (eg. all or mixed, see example). When segment values of xc1 and xc2 are the same, segment argument specified here has no effect and the original is retained. Whe

Value

• A result is an object of class 'xcount'.

See Also

xcount

Examples

ss1 <- data.frame(
cbind(
c("sample1","sample1","sample2","sample2","sample3","sample4"),
c("species1","species1","species1","species2","species3","zero.count"),
c("male","female","male","female","male","male")
),
c(1, 2, 10, 3, 4, 1)
)
colnames(ss1) <- c("sample.id", "species.id", "gender", "catch")

ss2 <- data.frame(
cbind(
c("sample1","sample1","sample5","sample5"),
c("species1","species4","species1","species5"),
c("male","female","male","female")
),
c(3, 2, 1, 4)
)
colnames(ss2) <- c("sample.id", "species.id", "gender", "catch")

xc1 <- xcount(sscount(ss1, zc="zero.count"))
xc2 <- xcount(sscount(ss1, zc="zero.count"), 1)
xc3 <- xcount(sscount(ss2))

mxcount(xc1, xc2, "mixed")
mxcount(xc1, xc3)