dataStat: Taxa statistics

In spider: Species Identity and Evolution in R

Description

Returns the numbers of species, genera and individuals in the dataset.

Usage

dataStat(sppVector, genVector, thresh)

Arguments

sppVector	Species vector (see sppVector).
genVector	Genus vector that defines the genera of each individual, created in a similar manner to the species vector.
thresh	Threshold for adequate individual/species number. Default of 5.

Details

The value NULL can be passed to gen if genera are not of interest in the dataset.

Value

A table giving the number of genera and species in the dataset; giving the minimum, maximum, mean and median number of individuals per species, and the number of species below the given threshold.

Author(s)

Rupert Collins <[e-mail]>

Examples

data(anoteropsis)
#Species vector
anoSpp <- sapply(strsplit(dimnames(anoteropsis)[[1]], split="_"), 
    function(x) paste(x[1], x[2], sep="_"))
#Genus vector
anoGen <-  sapply(strsplit(anoSpp, split="_"), function(x) x[1])
dataStat(anoSpp, anoGen)

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