data2mat:
Convert species list data to species matrix
Description
This function can be used to convert the species list to species matrix. The rows of the output matrix are plots, or sites. The columns are the species.
Usage
data2mat(data = data)
Arguments
data
The input data
Value
Return a species matrix with each row for each plot, and each column for species.
Details
The input data will have to include :species,plots or sites, abundance, specifically, a column named "abundance" must be specified.