New package vegetarian with initial version 1.0
Package: vegetarian
Type: Package
Title: Jost Diversity Measures for Community Data
Version: 1.0
Date: 2009-07-20
Author: Noah Charney, Sydne Record
Maintainer: Noah Charney
Description: This package computes diversity for community data sets using the methods outlined by Jost (2006, 2007). While there are differing opinions on the ideal way to calculate diversity (e.g. Magurran 2004), this method offers the advantage of providing diversity numbers equivalents, independent alpha and beta diversities, and the ability to incorporate 'order' (q) as a continuous measure of the importance of rare species in the metrics. The functions provided in this package largely correspond with the equations offered by Jost in the cited papers. The package computes alpha diversities, beta diversities, gamma diversities, and similarity indices. Confidence intervals for diversity measures are calculated using a bootstrap method described by Chao et al. (2008). For datasets with many samples (sites, plots), sim.table creates tables of all pairwise comparisons possible, and for grouped samples sim.groups calculates pairwise combinations of within- and between-group comparisons.
License: GPL-2
LazyLoad: yes
Depends: stats
Packaged: Sun Aug 9 11:26:42 2009; Noah
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2009-08-09 18:21:38

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Package sciplot updated to version 1.0-6 with previous version 1.0-5 dated 2009-04-15

Author: Manuel Morales , with code developed by the R Development Core Team and with general advice from the R-help listserv community, especially Duncan Murdoch.
Title: Scientific Graphing Functions for Factorial Designs
Description: A collection of functions that creates graphs with error bars for data collected from one-way or higher factorial designs.

Diff between sciplot versions 1.0-5 dated 2009-04-15 and 1.0-6 dated 2009-08-09

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 sciplot-1.0-6/sciplot/R/lineplot.CI.R |   19 +++++++++++++------
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