Re: [R] what is scaling in plot

2010-08-14 Thread Gavin Simpson
In an ordination such as this, you have two sets of scores; i) one pertaining to the (dis)similarity of your samples in terms of species composition, and ii) one pertaining to the species and which species co-occur. You can't display both sets of information and retain the meaning of the scores on

Re: [R] what is scaling in plot

2010-08-14 Thread elaine kuo
code rm(list=ls()) library(vegan) library(MASS) data(varespec) print(varespec) str(varespec) #PCA vare.pca <- rda(varespec) vare.pca plot(vare.pca) sum(apply(varespec, 2, var)) biplot(vare.pca, scaling = -1) Elaine On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Ben Bolker wrote: > elaine kuo gmail

Re: [R] what is scaling in plot

2010-08-13 Thread Ben Bolker
elaine kuo gmail.com> writes: > Pls kindly advise what scaling is in plot. > Sometime it could be negative but sometimes it might be positive > .(I guess it is the proportion between the plot and the margin) Your question is unclear. Please give more context and/or details. __