colComb: combine columns

In allanecology/BetaDivMultifun: Testing effects of multitrophic beta-diversity and land-use intensity (LUI) on ecosystem multifunctionality

combine columns

Description

This function combines columns. It creates a new column which is the mean (or any given function) of several columns. The old columns are deleted. It can be used e.g. to combine data from several years.

Usage

colComb(xx, oldcols, newcolname, merge.fun = "mean")

Arguments

xx	input file
oldcols	names of the columns to be combined, given as a vector
newcolname	the name which the newly generated, combined column should have
merge.fun	the name of the function to be used for column combination. e.g. "mean".

Details

This code is written by Eric.

Value

a merged column in the same dataset as given as input.

allanecology/BetaDivMultifun documentation built on Nov. 9, 2023, 8:47 p.m.