echinacea {aster}R Documentation

Life History Data on Echinacea angustifolia

Description

Data on life history traits for the purple coneflower Echinacea angustifolia

Usage

echinacea

Format

A data frame with records for 570 plants observed over three years.

ld02
Indicator of being alive in 2002.
ld03
Ditto for 2003.
ld04
Ditto for 2004.
fl02
Indicator of flowering 2002.
fl03
Ditto for 2003.
fl04
Ditto for 2004.
hdct02
Count of number of flower heads in 2002.
hdct03
Ditto for 2003.
hdct04
Ditto for 2004.
pop
the remnant population of origin of the plant (all plants were grown together, pop encodes ancestry).
ewloc
east-west location in plot.
nsloc
north-south location in plot.

Source

Stuart Wagenius, http://www.chicagobotanic.org/research/staff/wagenius.php

Examples

library(aster)
data(echinacea)
vars <- c("ld02", "ld03", "ld04", "fl02", "fl03", "fl04",
    "hdct02", "hdct03", "hdct04")
redata <- reshape(echinacea, varying = list(vars), direction = "long",
    timevar = "varb", times = as.factor(vars), v.names = "resp")
names(echinacea)
dim(echinacea)
names(redata)
dim(redata)

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