NMS axis variance and legend

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Hi Alida,

Hello,

I'm doing an NMS, and have decided to try out vegan and do everything
in R. ?In this attempt, I haven't been able to figure out how to get
the variance explained by each axis, nor the total variation
explained by the ordination.

It is my understanding that the concept of variance explained by an
axis does not make sense for NMS. In short, this is because an NMS
solution is the entire configuration so you can not look at one axis
alone. Despite this fact, variance explained by an axis is still
frequently reported in the literature and by many software packages.
Others please correct me if I am wrong here.
Measure of fit for NMS is often done with a shepard plot, see ?stressplot.

the other issue I have is how to get a

legend, because I want to represent different sites in the
ordination, but the sites are grouped by season in which they were
sampled in order to look at differences in seasonality. ?Therefore I
would like to have a legend that represent each season by different
symbols. ?I've decided to start using R, so there are still some
issues I have to figure out and learn the commands and functions to
do what I need.

Maybe this example, will help with the legend.
library(vegan)
data(dune)
data(dune.env)
mod <- metaMDS(dune)
fig <- plot(mod, type = 'none')
points(fig, 'sites', pch = as.numeric(dune.env$Use))
legend('topleft', legend = c('Hayfield','Haypastu','Pasture'), pch = 1:3)

Also see additional comments by Gavin here.
http://n4.nabble.com/NMDS-Ordination-Graphics-Problem-td1751845.html#a1840305

Hope this helps,
Michael

If you have any suggestions, please let me know,

Thanks in advance,
Alida


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Alida Mercado C?rdenas

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McGill University & Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

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