inst/doc/siber-comparing-communities.R

In SIBER: Stable Isotope Bayesian Ellipses in R

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library(viridis)
palette(viridis(4))

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library(SIBER, quietly = TRUE,
        verbose = FALSE,
        logical.return = FALSE)

# read in the data
# Replace this line with a call to read.csv() or similar pointing to your 
# own dataset.
data("demo.siber.data")
mydata <- demo.siber.data

# create the siber object
siber.example <- createSiberObject(mydata)

# Create lists of plotting arguments to be passed onwards to each 
# of the three plotting functions.
community.hulls.args <- list(col = 1, lty = 1, lwd = 1)
group.ellipses.args  <- list(n = 100, p.interval = 0.95, lty = 1, lwd = 2)
group.hull.args      <- list(lty = 2, col = "grey20")

# plot the raw data
par(mfrow=c(1,1))
plotSiberObject(siber.example,
                  ax.pad = 2, 
                  hulls = T, community.hulls.args, 
                  ellipses = F, group.ellipses.args,
                  group.hulls = F, group.hull.args,
                  bty = "L",
                  iso.order = c(1,2),
                  xlab = expression({delta}^13*C~'permille'),
                  ylab = expression({delta}^15*N~'permille')
                  )

# add the confidence interval of the means to help locate
# the centre of each data cluster
plotGroupEllipses(siber.example, n = 100, p.interval = 0.95,
                  ci.mean = T, lty = 1, lwd = 2)




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# Fit the Bayesian models

# options for running jags
parms <- list()
parms$n.iter <- 2 * 10^4   # number of iterations to run the model for
parms$n.burnin <- 1 * 10^3 # discard the first set of values
parms$n.thin <- 10     # thin the posterior by this many
parms$n.chains <- 2        # run this many chains

# define the priors
priors <- list()
priors$R <- 1 * diag(2)
priors$k <- 2
priors$tau.mu <- 1.0E-3

# fit the ellipses which uses an Inverse Wishart prior
# on the covariance matrix Sigma, and a vague normal prior on the 
# means. Fitting is via the JAGS method.
ellipses.posterior <- siberMVN(siber.example, parms, priors)


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# extract the posterior means
mu.post <- extractPosteriorMeans(siber.example, ellipses.posterior)

# calculate the corresponding distribution of layman metrics
layman.B <- bayesianLayman(mu.post)


# --------------------------------------
# Visualise the first community
# --------------------------------------

# drop the 3rd column of the posterior which is TA using -3.
siberDensityPlot(layman.B[[1]][ , -3], 
                 xticklabels = colnames(layman.B[[1]][ , -3]), 
                 bty="L", ylim = c(0,20))

# add the ML estimates (if you want). Extract the correct means 
# from the appropriate array held within the overall array of means.
comm1.layman.ml <- laymanMetrics(siber.example$ML.mu[[1]][1,1,],
                                 siber.example$ML.mu[[1]][1,2,]
                                 )

# again drop the 3rd entry which relates to TA
points(1:5, comm1.layman.ml$metrics[-3], 
       col = "red", pch = "x", lwd = 2)


# --------------------------------------
# Visualise the second community
# --------------------------------------
siberDensityPlot(layman.B[[2]][ , -3], 
                 xticklabels = colnames(layman.B[[2]][ , -3]), 
                bty="L", ylim = c(0,20))

# add the ML estimates. (if you want) Extract the correct means 
# from the appropriate array held within the overall array of means.
comm2.layman.ml <- laymanMetrics(siber.example$ML.mu[[2]][1,1,],
                                 siber.example$ML.mu[[2]][1,2,]
                                )
points(1:5, comm2.layman.ml$metrics[-3], 
       col = "red", pch = "x", lwd = 2)


# --------------------------------------
# Alternatively, pull out TA from both and aggregate them into a 
# single matrix using cbind() and plot them together on one graph.
# --------------------------------------

# go back to a 1x1 panel plot
par(mfrow=c(1,1))

# Now we only plot the TA data. We could address this as either
# layman.B[[1]][, "TA"]
# or
# layman.B[[1]][, 3]
siberDensityPlot(cbind(layman.B[[1]][ , "TA"], 
                       layman.B[[2]][ , "TA"]),
                xticklabels = c("Community 1", "Community 2"), 
                bty="L", ylim = c(0, 90),
                las = 1,
                ylab = "TA - Convex Hull Area",
                xlab = "")


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TA1_lt_TA2 <- sum(layman.B[[1]][,"TA"] < 
                      layman.B[[2]][,"TA"]) / 
                length(layman.B[[1]][,"TA"])

print(TA1_lt_TA2)