CRAN
vegetarian 1.2
Jost Diversity Measures for Community Data
Released Oct 29, 2012 by Noah Charney
This package computes diversity for community data sets using the methods outlined by Jost (2006, 2007). While there are differing opinions on the ideal way to calculate diversity (e.g. Magurran 2004), this method offers the advantage of providing diversity numbers equivalents, independent alpha and beta diversities, and the ability to incorporate 'order' (q) as a continuous measure of the importance of rare species in the metrics. The functions provided in this package largely correspond with the equations offered by Jost in the cited papers. The package computes alpha diversities, beta diversities, gamma diversities, and similarity indices. Confidence intervals for diversity measures are calculated using a bootstrap method described by Chao et al. (2008). For datasets with many samples (sites, plots), sim.table creates tables of all pairwise comparisons possible, and for grouped samples sim.groups calculates pairwise combinations of within- and between-group comparisons.
Installation
Maven
This package can be included as a dependency from a Java or Scala project by including
the following your project's pom.xml file.
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<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.renjin.cran</groupId>
<artifactId>vegetarian</artifactId>
<version>1.2-b242</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>bedatadriven</id>
<name>bedatadriven public repo</name>
<url>https://nexus.bedatadriven.com/content/groups/public/</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
Renjin CLI
If you're using Renjin from the command line, you load this library by invoking:
library('org.renjin.cran:vegetarian')
Test Results
This package was last tested against Renjin 0.9.2644 on Jun 1, 2018.