nMDS

Assignment 7

Author

AJ Smit

Published

June 28, 2020

Submit a R script wherein you provide answers to Questions 1–2 by no later than 8:00 tomorrow. Label the script as follows: BCB743_<Name>_<Surname>_Assignment_7.R, e.g. BCB743_AJ_Smit_Assignment_7.R.

Refer to the non-Metric Multidimensional Scaling lecture material to see the questions in context.

Assignment 7 Questions

Using two unconstrained ordination techniques of your choice, analyse the mite data in the vegan package. Provide a brief description and discussion of what you have found, and produce the R code.

Using two unconstrained ordination techniques of your choice (not already used in 1, above) analyse the dune data in the vegan package. Provide a brief description and discussion of what you have found, and produce the R code.

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Citation

BibTeX citation:

@online{smit,_a._j.2020,
  author = {Smit, A. J., and Smit, AJ},
  title = {nMDS},
  date = {2020-06-28},
  url = {http://tangledbank.netlify.app/slides/BCB743_11-nmds.html},
  langid = {en}
}

For attribution, please cite this work as:

Smit, A. J., Smit A (2020) nMDS. http://tangledbank.netlify.app/slides/BCB743_11-nmds.html.

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title: "nMDS"
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  - "AJ Smit"
date: '2020/06/28 (updated: `r Sys.Date()`)'
output:
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      - ki
      - "uwc_logo.css"
    yolo: false
    self_contained: TRUE  
    lib_dir: libs
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```{r setup, include = FALSE, echo = FALSE} 
library(tidyverse)
library(ggpubr)
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE,
                      comment = "R>",
                      message = FALSE,
                      warning = FALSE,
                      include = TRUE,
                      fig.retina = 3,
                      fig.width = 6,
                      fig.height = 3.6,
                      fig.align = "center")
```

Submit a R script wherein you provide answers to Questions 1--2 by no later than 8:00 tomorrow. Label the script as follows: **`BCB743_<Name>_<Surname>_Assignment_7.R`**, e.g. **`BCB743_AJ_Smit_Assignment_7.R`**.

Refer to the [non-Metric Multidimensional Scaling lecture material](https://ajsmit.netlify.app/workshops/quantecol/chapters/11-nmds/) to see the questions in context.

---

### Assignment 7 Questions

> 1.  Using two unconstrained ordination techniques of your choice, analyse the mite data in the **vegan** package. Provide a brief description and discussion of what you have found, and produce the R code.
>
> 2.  Using two unconstrained ordination techniques of your choice (not already used in 1, above) analyse the dune data in the **vegan** package. Provide a brief description and discussion of what you have found, and produce the R code.