validate.cm {LoopAnalyst}R Documentation

Validate a Community Matrix

Description

Validates a community matrix, returning descriptive errors if validation fails and nothing otherwise.

Usage

validate.cm(CM)

Arguments

CM A potential community matrix to be tested.

Details

A community matrix is deemed valid if it is a square matrix, with no missing values, where each element has the value -1, 0 or 1, it is not a fully specified matrix, and there is at least one direct or indirect path from each element to each element.

Author(s)

Alexis Dinno http://www.doyenne.com/LoopAnalyst/

References

Puccia, C. J. and Levins, R. (1986) Qualitative Modeling of Complex Systems: An Introduction to Loop Analysis and Time Averaging. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

See Also

make.cm.

Examples

## assess community matrix
data(cm.levins)
validate.cm(cm.levins)

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