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vegan: Community Ecology Package. Ordination methods, diversity analysis and other functions for community and vegetation ecologists

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The functions in the vegan package contain tools for diversity analysis, ordination methods andtools for the analysis of dissimilarities. Together with the labdsv package, the vegan packageprovides most standard tools of descriptive community analysis. Package ade4 provides an alternativecomprehensive package, and several other packages complement vegan and provide toolsfor deeper analysis in specific fields. Package BiodiversityR provides a GUI for a large subset ofvegan functionality.

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