Replied to on the R-sig-ecology list, with a request not to cross-post. Briefly, the output is a list with named components, so can be extracted as usual.
Sarah On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 5:50 AM, Elaine Kuo <elaine.kuo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear List, > > This is Elaine. > I am using beta.part to calculate the beta diversity index. > The function of beta.part can generate three kinds of beta diversity indice > at one time. > However, it is Simpson index that I want. > > The calculation result is composed of three rows and N/A columns (dist > class). > I do not know how to extract one of the indice in the form of dist class. > No relevant example is found the manual. > (I tried as.vector as below but failed.) > > Please kindly help and thank you in advance. > > Elaine > > Code > library(betapart) > dist.sim<-beta.pair(dataR, index.family="sor") > > # Unfold distance matrices into vectors > data.sim<-data.frame(as.vector(dist.sim)) > -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.