The functions in the vegan package contain tools for diversity analysis, ordination methods and tools for the analysis of dissimilarities. Together with the labdsv package, the vegan package provides most standard tools of descriptive community analysis. Packageade4provides an alter-native comprehensive package, and several other packages complement vegan and provide tools for deeper analysis in specific fields. Package Biodiversity R provides a GUI for a large subset of vegan functionality. The vegan package is developed at GitHub (https://github.com/vegandevs/vegan/). GitHub provides up-to-date information and forums for bug reports. Most important changes in vegan documents can be read with news(package=”vegan”) and vignettes can be browsed with browseVignettes(“vegan”). The vignettes include a vegan FAQ,discussion on design decisions, short introduction to ordination and discussion on diversity methods.To see the preferable citation of the package, type citation(“vegan”)

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