validate.cem {LoopAnalyst}

Validate a Community Effect Matrix

Description

Validates a community effect matrix, returning descriptive errors if validation fails and no value otherwise.

Usage

validate.cem(CEM)

Arguments

CEM

A potential community effect matrix to be tested.

Details

A community effect matrix is deemed valid if it is a square matrix, with no missing values, where each element has the value NA, -1, 0 or 1.

Author(s)

Alexis Dinno ([e-mail])

Please contact me with any questions, bug reports or suggestions for improvement. Fixing bugs will be facilitated by sending along:

[1]	a copy of your relevant R data file (de-labeled or anonymized is fine),
[2]	a copy of the command syntax used, and
[3]	a copy of the exact output of the command.

https://alexisdinno.com/LoopAnalyst/

References

Puccia, C. J. and Levins, R. (1986) Qualitative Modeling of Complex Systems: An Introduction to Loop Analysis and Time Averaging. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. <doi:10.4159/harvard.9780674435070>.

See Also

make.cem.

Examples

## assess community effect matrix
data(cm.levins)
make.cem(cm.levins) -> cem.levins
validate.cem(cem.levins)