margin: Marginal Compositions

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Marginal Compositions

Description

Marginal Compositions

Usage

margin(x, ...)

## S4 method for signature 'CompositionMatrix'
margin(x, parts = c(1, 2), name = "*")

Arguments

x	A CompositionMatrix object.
...	Currently not used.
parts	An integer or a character vector specifying the columns to be selected.
name	A character string giving the name of the amalgamation column.

Value

A CompositionMatrix object.

Author(s)

N. Frerebeau

See Also

Other statistics: aggregate(), condense(), covariance(), dist, mahalanobis(), mean(), pip(), quantile(), scale(), variance(), variance_total(), variation()

Examples

## Data from Aitchison 1986
data("hongite")

## Coerce to compositional data
coda <- as_composition(hongite)

## Marginal compositions
mar <- margin(coda, parts = c("B", "D"))
head(mar)

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