labdsv (version 1.8-0)

reconcile: Reconcile Taxa and Site Data.Frames

Description

reconcile takes two data frames (taxa and site) and sorts both into the same order, and then deletes any rows unique to either of the two data.frames, achieving perfect correspondence of the two.

Usage

reconcile(taxa,site)

Arguments

taxa

a taxon abundance data.frame with samples as rows and species as columns

site

a data.frame of site or environmental varialbles with samples as rows and variables as columns

Value

a list object with two elements: taxa and site, which are the sorted and reconciled data.frames.

Details

reconcile sorts each data.frame alphabetically by row.name, and then compares the list of row.names to identify sample plots common to both data.frames. Sample plots which occur in only one of the data.frames are deleted.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
    data(bryceveg)   # returns a data.frame of taxon abundance
    data(brycesite)  # returns a data.frame of site variables
    test <- reconcile(bryceveg,brycesite)
# }