typical {vegsoup} | R Documentation |
Identifies samples (plots) that typify partitions based on dissimilarity.
## S4 method for signature 'VegsoupPartition' typical(obj, k = 1, ...)
obj |
An object inheriting from class |
k |
integer. Number of typal species/clusters to identify. Defaults to 1. |
... |
currently not used. |
Typical calculates two versions of typal species. Silhouette analysis returns k
samples with the largest positive silhouette width for each partition. Partana analysis returns the k
samples with the highest mean similarity to the partition. See typal
in package optpart for further details.
Returns a list
with two components
partana |
A |
silhouette |
A |
A wrapper for function typal
by David W. Roberts in package optpart.
require(vegsoup) data(barmstein) x <- VegsoupPartition(barmstein, k = 2) typical(x)