nichetools (version 0.3.2)

create_comparisons: create comparisons

Description

Creates a list with all of the comparisons needed to create Bayesian and maximum-likelihood estimates for proportion of niche similarities.

Usage

create_comparisons(data, comparison = c("within", "among"))

Arguments

data

a data.frame that is the names of the community and group names

comparison

a characterthat is either "within" or "among" indicating whether the comparisons are within a community and between groups or among communities for the same groups.

Examples

# ---- load siber ----
library(SIBER)

# ---- create community names data frame ----
# uncomment to use
# str(demo.siber.data.2)

demo.siber.data.2$group_name <- as.factor(demo.siber.data.2$group)

demo.siber.data.2$group <- as.numeric(demo.siber.data.2$group_name) |>
as.character()

demo.siber.data.2$community_names <- as.factor(demo.siber.data.2$community)

demo.siber.data.2$community <- as.numeric(demo.siber.data.2$community_names) |>
as.character()

cg_names <- demo.siber.data.2 |>
dplyr::distinct(community, group, community_names, group_name)

# ---- create comparsions ----
create_comparisons(cg_names,
                  comparison = "within")