Hello John, Michael and David,

I will review Vegan Package. I am very thankful with your help.

Best,
Judith


On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 9:04 AM, David L Carlson <dcarl...@tamu.edu> wrote:

> In particular, look at the vegan Vignette, "Introduction to Ordination in
> vegan", particularly section 4 on constrained ordination which describes
> three approaches that seem relevant to your problem.
>
> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/vegan/vignettes/intro-vegan.pdf
>
> David Carlson
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org]
> On Behalf Of Michael Friendly
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 3:22 AM
> To: Maria Judith Carmona H
> Cc: r-help@r-project.org; John Fox
> Subject: Re: [R] Cansisc: Error in eigen(eHe, symmetric = TRUE)
>
> Maria
>
> The variables
>
> Araceae,Begoniaceae,Bromeliaceae,Clusiaceae,Cyclanthaceae,Ericaceae,Gesneriaceae,
> Melastomataceae,Orchidaceae,Piperaceae,Pteridophyta
> are frequencies (abundances?) of which most are 0 and this is not
> appropriate
> as multivariate normal data.
>
> There is probably a version of canonical analysis that takes such
> variables into account,
> but I don't know specifically.  Have you looked at the vegan package and
> its references?
>
> HTH
> -Michael
>
>
>
> On 10/07/2014 12:54 AM, Maria Judith Carmona H wrote:
> > Dear John,
> >
> > I am including abundance values ​​in my data set so obviously I have
> > zero abundances.
> > The problem is that if plot only the factors (biomasa, altdosel,
> > altsoto, cobertura, riqarb, elevacion, temperatura, precipitacion) I
> > get the graphic, the same happen when I included only the families,
> > but I want to see the effect of all these factors+families on this
> > plot . In fact I included only certain families:
> >
> > prueba4 <-
> >
> lm(cbind(biomasa,altdosel,altsoto,cobertura,riqarb,elevacion,temperatura,precipitacion,
> >
> Araceae,Begoniaceae,Bromeliaceae,Clusiaceae,Cyclanthaceae,Ericaceae,Gesneriaceae,
> > Melastomataceae,Orchidaceae,Piperaceae,Pteridophyta) ~ sitio,
> > data=bosques.p)
> > canprueba2 <- candisc(prueba2, term="sitio", data=bosques.p, ndim=1)
> > Error in eigen (EHD, symmetric = TRUE): infinite or missing values ​​
> > in 'x'
> > In addition: Warning message:
> > In sqrt (wmd): NaNs produced
> >
> > You see I get the same error.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Judith
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 5:30 PM, John Fox <j...@mcmaster.ca
> > <mailto:j...@mcmaster.ca>> wrote:
> >
> >     Dear Maria Judith Carmona Higuita,
> >
> >     Since you didn't include enough information (such as your access
> >     to your data) to reproduce the error, one can only guess. My
> >     guess: you have fewer observations in your data set than response
> >     variables on the LHS of the multivariate linear model.
> >
> >     I hope this helps,
> >      John
> >
> >     ------------------------------------------------
> >     John Fox, Professor
> >     McMaster University
> >     Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
> >     http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/
> >
> >     On Wed, 9 Jul 2014 11:36:35 -0500
> >      Maria Judith Carmona H <juditycarm...@gmail.com
> >     <mailto:juditycarm...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >     > Hi,
> >     >
> >     > I have a problem using the function Candisc from Candisc Package.
> >     >
> >     > bosques1<-read.csv("bosques1.csv",header=TRUE,encoding="latin1")
> >     > bosques1<-na.exclude(bosques1)
> >     > attach(bosques1)
> >     >
> >     > #Modelo de regresión
> >     > mod <-
> >     >
> >
> lm(cbind(biomasa,altdosel,altsoto,cobertura,riqarb,elevacion,temperatura,precipitacion,
> >     >                 Acanthaceae, Apocinaceae, Araceae, Araliaceae,
> >     Arecaceae,
> >     > Aspleniaceae, Begoniaceae,
> >     >                 Blechnaceae, Bromeliaceae, Clusiaceae,
> >     Cyclanthaceae,
> >     > Davalliaceae, Denstaedtiaceae,
> >     >                 Dryopteridaceae, Ericaceae, Gesneriaceae,
> >     Hymenophyllaceae,
> >     > indet., Lauraceae, Lomariopsidaceae, Lycopodiaceae,
> Melastomataceae,
> >     > Moraceae, Myrsinaceae, Ophioglossaceae,
> >     >                 Orchidaceae, Peperomia, Piperaceae, Poaceae,
> >     Polypodiaceae,
> >     > Primulaceae, Pteridaceae,
> >     >                 Pteridophyta.taxa, Rubiaceae, Vittariaceae) ~
> sitio,
> >     > data=bosques1)
> >     > summary(mod)
> >     >
> >     > #Gráfico 1
> >     > can <- candisc(mod, term="sitio",data=bosques1,ndim=1,eig=T)
> >     > ### The error happens here, so I can not run the plot.
> >     > plot(can,titles.1d = c("Puntuación canónica", "Estructura"))
> >     > summary(can, means = FALSE, scores = TRUE, coef = c("std"),
> >     digits = 2)
> >     >
> >     > The error is:
> >     > Error in eigen(eHe, symmetric = TRUE) : infinite or missing
> >     values in 'x'
> >     > In addition: Warning message:
> >     > In sqrt(wmd) : NaNs produced
> >     >
> >     > Please help!
> >     >
> >     > --
> >     > Maria Judith Carmona Higuita.
> >     > Estudiante de Biología - Universidad de Antioquia
> >     > Medellín - Colombia
> >     >
> >     > "La felicidad ocurre cuando encajas en tu vida, cuando encajas
> >     > tan armónicamente que cualquier cosa que hagas es una alegría
> >     para ti. De
> >     > repente lo sabrás y la meditación te seguirá. Si amas el trabajo
> >     que haces,
> >     > si amas la manera como vives, entonces ya estás meditando y nada
> >     puede
> >     > distraerte." Osho
> >     >
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> >     >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Maria Judith Carmona Higuita.
> > Estudiante de Biología - Universidad de Antioquia
> > Medellín - Colombia
> >
> > "La felicidad ocurre cuando encajas en tu vida, cuando encajas
> > tan armónicamente que cualquier cosa que hagas es una alegría para ti.
> > De repente lo sabrás y la meditación te seguirá. Si amas el trabajo
> > que haces, si amas la manera como vives, entonces ya estás meditando y
> > nada puede distraerte." Osho
> >
>
>
> --
> Michael Friendly     Email: friendly AT yorku DOT ca
> Professor, Psychology Dept. & Chair, Quantitative Methods
> York University      Voice: 416 736-2100 x66249 Fax: 416 736-5814
> 4700 Keele Street    Web:   http://www.datavis.ca
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>
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-- 
Maria Judith Carmona Higuita.
Biologist - University of Antioquia
Medellín - Colombia

"Happiness happens when you fit with your life, when you fit so
harmoniously that whatsoever you are doing is your joy. Then suddenly you
will come to know: meditation follows you. If you love the work that you
are doing, if you love the way you are living, then you are meditative".
Osho

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