Make Non-Nested 'mefa' Object

The functions makes a non-nested 'mefa' object.

Usage

mefaNestedless(x)

Arguments

x: an objects of class 'mefa' with nested segments.

Value

Returns an object of class 'mefa', with non-nested segments. This function is internally used by the melt.mefa function.

References

S\'olymos P. (2008) mefa: an R package for handling and reporting count data. Community Ecology 9, 125--127.

S\'olymos P. (2009) Processing ecological data in R with the mefa package. Journal of Statistical Software 29(8), 1--28. doi:10.18637/jss.v029.i08

http://mefa.r-forge.r-project.org/

Author

P\'eter S\'olymos, solymos@ualberta.ca

Examples

data(dol.count)
x <- mefa(stcs(dol.count), nested = TRUE)
x
#> 
#> An object of class 'mefa' containing
#> 
#>  $ xtab: 731 individuals of 28 taxa in 24 samples,
#>  $ segm: 2 nested segments:
#>          fresh, fresh-broken,
#>  $ samp: table for samples not provided,
#>  $ taxa: table for taxa not provided.
#> 
y <- mefaNestedless(x)
y
#> 
#> An object of class 'mefa' containing
#> 
#>  $ xtab: 731 individuals of 28 taxa in 24 samples,
#>  $ segm: 2 (non-nested) segments:
#>          fresh, fresh-broken,
#>  $ samp: table for samples not provided,
#>  $ taxa: table for taxa not provided.
#>