[R] Specaccum

[Sarah Goslee]

You need to read the help for specaccum to see what it returns. If you
want the site and richness components, as in the example you give, you
could do:

my.sa <- specaccum(my.data)
write.table(cbind(my.sa$sites, my.sa$richness), "myoutput.csv")

Sarah

On Feb 20, 2008 7:24 AM, Alfonso Pérez Rodríguez <fonsilei at iim.csic.es> wrote:
> Hello, I'm trying to obtain a species abundance curve with the function  specaccum from vegan package. I've applied this function to my data and I've obtained something like this:
>
> Sites    1.000000 2.000000 3.000000 4.000000  5.0000000  6.0000000  7.00  Richness 6.510000 8.290000 9.150000 9.770000 10.3300000 10.7600000 sd       1.381662 1.350608 1.200799 1.117853  0.9749903  0.9333333  0.90
>
> But the problem is that I want to export this data to an excel file, or a txt file, but I'm not able to do it because I can not asign this values to a data.frame or a matrix or something. When I try to transform in a data frame the program tell me:
>
> Error en as.data.frame.default(x[[i]], optional = TRUE, stringsAsFactors = stringsAsFactors) :
>   cannot coerce class "specaccum" into a data.frame
>
> Then, what can I do? Thank you very much.
>
>
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Sarah Goslee
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