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help with hier.part

2 messages · Stratford, Jeffrey, PIKAL Petr

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R-users,

Attached is the file  (SR_use2.txt) I'd like to include and includes
column headers.  nat_est is the response variable and is the number of
species at a particular point.  The other variables are the explanatory
vars (vark, var2, var1, UK, U2, U1, GK, G2, G1, PK, P2, P1).  

Here is Walsh's sample code for hier.part:

data(urbanwq)
env <- urbanwq[,2,8]
hier.part(urbanwq$lec, env, fam="gaussian", gof="Rssqu")

The code I wrote is 

library(hier.part)
SRUSE<- read.table("F:\\GEORGIA\\species_richness\\SR_use2.txt", sep="
", header = TRUE, row.names = 1)
TEMP<- SRUSE[2:13]
hier.part(SRUSE$nat_est,TEMP, family="NegBin", gof="logLik", barplot=
TRUE)

So far this doesn't work and I'd really appreciate some help.

While I have your ears, what books would one make for the clueless?  

Many thanks,

Jeff

PS. nat_est is the estimated number of species (species richness). 
Around each of the sampling points I calculated the % of different types
of cover (pine, hardwoods, number of different covers) in three scales
around the sampling points (1000, 200, and 100 m).  What I'm hoping to
do with the analysis is to find the best scales and parameters that best
predicts species richness. 
.  

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Postdoctoral Associate
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Department of Biological Sciences
Auburn University
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Hi

although I do not know anything about hier.part package I try few 
comments

- see posting guide as it suggest to try to present a toy example 
which shows your problem

- are there some error messages or the result is not as you expect?

- what is TEMP - seems to me that you need to define it before 
hier.part() function and you did it but I am not sure if it contained 
what it should contain

- usually when something "does not work" means I made a mistake 
and I have to bore deeper to to syntax and man pages of a 
function. I swear that reading all posibble sources of information is 
worth the time if you really want to use R.

HTH
Petr
On 1 Nov 2005 at 16:12, Jeffrey Stratford wrote:
Date sent:      	Tue, 01 Nov 2005 16:12:03 -0600
From:           	"Jeffrey Stratford" <stratja at auburn.edu>
To:             	<r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Subject:        	[R] help with hier.part
Petr Pikal
petr.pikal at precheza.cz