validate.cem: Validate a Community Effect Matrix

In LoopAnalyst: A Collection of Tools to Conduct Levins' Loop Analysis

Description

Validates a community effect matrix, returning descriptive errors if validation fails and no value otherwise.

Usage

validate.cem(CEM)

Arguments

CEM	A potential community effect matrix to be tested.

Details

A community effect matrix is deemed valid if it is a square matrix, with no missing values, where each element has the value NA, -1, 0 or 1.

Author(s)

Alexis Dinno https://www.alexisdinno.com/LoopAnalyst/

References

Puccia, C. J. and Levins, R. (1986) Qualitative Modeling of Complex Systems: An Introduction to Loop Analysis and Time Averaging. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

See Also

make.cem.

Examples

## assess community effect matrix
data(cm.levins)
make.cem(cm.levins) -> cem.levins
validate.cem(cem.levins)

Example output

Loading required package: nlme

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