plotbin: Function to plot the distribution of lag distance bin sizes
In sesem: Spatially Explicit Structural Equation Modeling

Description Usage Arguments Details Author(s) References See Also Examples

A convenience function that provides a histogram of distances among of all sample pairs and a plot of sample sizes for each the selected bin size.

1	plotbin(dist.mat,binsize)

`dist.mat`	a vector of x-y distances among all sample pairs as produced by calc.dist
`binsize`	A vector of bin sizes as produced by make.bin, or of the form c(0,2,3,4,....) where the values are the desired bin cutoffs beginning with zero.

This function is to assist in visualization of both the distribution of x-y distances in the dataset and sample sizes resulting from the selected lag distance bins. See the help files for calc.dist and make.bin for the inputs to this function.

Eric Lamb

Lamb, E. G., K. Mengersen, K. J. Stewart, U. Attanayake, and S. D. Siciliano. 2014. Spatially explicit structural equation modeling. Ecology 95:2434-2442.

make.bin, calc.dist, make.covar

data=plantcomp
distancematrix<-calc.dist(plantcomp[c(1:100),])
#using subset of plantcomp dataset to cut computation time
Plant_bins<-make.bin(distancematrix,type="s.size",s.size=200) 
#inference distance=50% AND sample size=200
binsize<-Plant_bins[1][[1]] #plant competition bin sizes

plotbin(distancematrix,binsize)