Merge cover data with interaction data for a given site

Source: R/comm_to_RN.R

This function returns a data frame that merges the information from the recruitment network and species cover for a local community. It is a shortcut to directly obtain the data for a local community from the RecruitNet dataset.

comm_to_RN(RN_data = NULL, cover_data = NULL, site = NULL)

Arguments

RN_data

data set where recruitment networks are stored. Usually, it will be "RecruitNet" (or the name assigned to the dataset when it was imported).

cover_data

data set where cover data is stored. Usually, it will be "CanopyCover" (or the name assigned to the dataset "CanopyCover.csv" when it was imported).

site

name of the study site.

Value

A data.frame containing 7 columns with all the information needed for the basic analysis of recruitment networks and canopy-recruit interactions: canopy species (Canopy), recruit species (Recruit), recruitment frequency (fij), Tij = TODO, Pij = TODO, cover of the canopy (cj) and cover of the recruit (ci).

Examples

data(RecruitNet)
data(CanopyCover)
Ventisquero_RNc <- comm_to_RN(RecruitNet, CanopyCover, site = "Ventisquero")