[R] Re-post data format question (apologies)

[Sarah Goslee]

There are various ways, but for simple convenience that's exactly
the job that crosstab() in ecodist was written for.

Sarah

On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Drew Garey <corydalus at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
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> I have a *.csv file that looks like this (actual file is orders of magnitude
> larger):
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> Site                  taxa                  no.ind
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> forest                LMA                1
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> forest                LCY                1
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> forest                SCO                1
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> meadow           LMA                2
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> meadow           LCY                1
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> meadow           PNT                 3
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> I am interested in, but have failed to create, code that efficiently
> converts it to a site-by-taxa matrix or data frame that looks like this:
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>                        LMA    LCY    SCO    PNT
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> Forest              1          1          1          0
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> Meadow          2          1          0          3
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> With no repeating taxa names and zeros where a taxon is not listed for a
> site.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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> Regards,
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> Drew Garey
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> Aquatic Ecoloy Lab Manager
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> Virginia Commonwealth University
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