Coverscale-class: Coverscale Class

In vegsoup: Classes and Methods for Phytosociology

Description

Contains the defintion for a cover scale (abundance scale) associated with an Vegsoup* object.

Objects from the Class

Objects can be created by calls to the function Coverscale or of the form new("Coverscale", ...).

Slots

name:

A character object giving a descriptive name of the definition.

codes:

A character vector giving the level codes for ordinal scales, or NULL.

lims:

A numeric vector defining the mean percentage cover for each entry in codes or NULL.

Methods

coerce

signature(from = "list", to = "Coverscale"): The from object has to be a list of length three. Components [2:3] can be NULL.

Author(s)

Roland Kaiser

References

Peet, R.K. & Roberts, D.W. (2013). Classification of natural and semi-natural vegetation. In Vegetation Ecology (van der Maarel, E. & Franklin, J. eds). Wiley-Blackwell.

Barkman, J.J., Doing, H. & Segal, S. Kritische Bemerkungen und Vorschläge zur quantitativen Vegetationsanalyse. Acta Botanica Neerlandica, 13:394-419, 1964.

Certainly, more references are needed here!

See Also

Coverscale, coverscale

Examples

showClass("Coverscale")
Coverscale()

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