Dropping Plots with Missing Values From Taxon and Site Data Frames
Looks for plots which have missing values in site or environment data, and deletes those plots from both the community and site data frames.
dropplt(comm,site,which=NULL)
comm |
a community data frame with samples as rows and species as columns |
site |
a site or environment data frame with samples as rows and variables as columns |
which |
a switch to specify specific plots to drop from both data.frames |
First looks to see that the row names of the community data frame and the site or environment data frame are identical. If not, it prints an error message and exits. If which is NULL, it then looks at the site or environment data frame for plots or samples that have missing values, and deletes those plots from both the community and site data frames. Alternatively, if which is a numeric scalar or vector it deletes the specified plots from both the community and site data.frames.
produces a list with two components:
site |
the new site data frame |
This is a VERY heavy-handed approach to managing missing values. Most R routines (including most of the labdsv package functions) have ways of handling missing values that are fairly graceful. This function simply maintains the correspondence between the community and site data frames while eliminating ALL missing values, and all plots that have missing values.
data(bryceveg) # returns a data frame called bryceveg data(brycesite) # returns a data frame called brycesite demo <- dropplt(bryceveg,brycesite) newcomm <- demo$comm newsite <- demo$site
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