Hello, my name is Fábio and I'm a Marine Ecology student in Portugal. I'm currently using the FD package for my work and yesterday one message appeared that I wasn't expecting and I really need your help to try to figure out what's happening. I'm using the dbFD function and the following message appeared:
FRic: Only categorical and/or ordinal trait(s) present in 'x'. FRic was measured as the number of unique trait combinations, NOT as the convex hull volume. FDiv: Cannot be computed when only categorical and/or ordinal trait(s) present in 'x'. My data: x is a matrix with species vs functional traits a is a matrix with species vs sampling (in abundances) Previously I used the dbFD function and was working just fine. Yesterday I removed 2 traits and this message appeared. My traits now are 3 categorical traits and 1 numeric. The 2 trais that I removed were numeric traits as well. I really need to remove those trait, but I still need the FDiv to be calculated. Can you explain to me why is this error occurring? I need to know how the dbFD is measuring the indexes so I can understanding the error and if I can or can't continue to use this package (if it applies or not to my goals) Kind regards Fábio Monteiro [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.