[R] subset point data set by distance ranges

Greetings I'm using R 2.8 with recent (last month) versions of the packages I need to use at present. I'm interested in examining hierarchical spatio-temporal patterns in a data set. The data consist of 94 points (X, Y, UTM coordinates) at which catch rates for a fish were

[R] GAMM and anove.lme question

Greetings all The help file for GAMM in mgcv indicates that the log likelihood for a GAMM reported using summary(my.gamm$lme) (as an example) is not correct. However, in a past R-help post (included below), there is some indication that the likelihood ratio test in anova.lme(mygamm$lme, mygamm1

[R] GAMs and GAMMS with correlated acoustic data

Greetings This is a long email. I'm struggling with a data set comprising 2,278 hydroacoustic estimates of fish biomass density made along line transects in two lakes (lakes Michigan and Huron, three years in each lake). The data represent lakewide surveys in each year and each data point rep