msscount {mefa}R Documentation

Merges Two Objects of Class 'sscount'

Description

The function merges two objects of class 'sscount'.

Usage

msscount(ssc1, ssc2)

Arguments

ssc1 an object of class 'sscount'.
ssc2 an object of class 'sscount'.

Value

A result is an object of class 'sscount'.

data data frame with columns sample, species, segment, count. First three columns are factors, count is numeric.
zc flag for rows with 0 total count, zc="zero.count". Different zc flags for ssc1 and ssc2 are united.
nsamples number of samples (levels) in data column sample.
nspecies number of species (levels) in data column species, "pseudo-species" created according to zc is excluded.
segment.levels list of levels in data column segment.

Note

Merge operation terminates with error message if zero count identifier of one 'sscount' object is a valid species identifier for the other 'sscount' object.

Author(s)

Peter Solymos, Solymos.Peter@aotk.szie.hu, http://www.univet.hu/users/psolymos/personal/

See Also

sscount

Examples

ss <- data.frame(
cbind(
c("sample1","sample1","sample2","sample2","sample3","sample4"),
c("species1","species1","species1","species2","species3","zero.count"),
c("male","female","male","female","male","male")
),
c(1, 2, 10, 3, 4, 1)
)
colnames(ss) <- c("sample.id", "species.id", "gender", "catch")

ss2 <- ss[1:5,]

ssc1 <- sscount(ss, zc="zero.count")
ssc2 <- sscount(ss2)

msscount(ssc1, ssc1)
msscount(ssc1, ssc2)
msscount(ssc2, ssc2)

[Package mefa version 1.0 Index]