Pariwise tests in ANOSIM (and/or ADONIS)

Jari, thank you for your response.  I think you are correct about the non-R software. 

Simon

-----Original Message-----
From: Jari Oksanen [mailto:jari.oksanen at oulu.fi] 
Sent: Wednesday, 5 June 2013 1:01 PM
To: Simon de Lestang
Cc: r-sig-ecology at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-sig-eco] Pariwise tests in ANOSIM (and/or ADONIS)

I have what I am sure is a very simple question relating to the package vegan, although I have not been able to solve it via Google.
Using the function anosim I am only able to produce a global result in the output.
Is it possible to produce all pairwise comparisons (corrected) in a single output or are these to be conducted individually? (individual pairwise tests).
I guess my question would also relate to the function adonis.

Dear Simon,

Pairwise tests are not possible in vegan. My understanding is that the non-R software with such tests makes separate pairwise tests using subsets of data with only two levels of a factor in one tests. We don't provide that in vegan and have no plans to provide this in the future. 

Cheers, Jari Oksanen

Jari Oksanen, Dept Biology, Univ Oulu, 90014 Finland