BodyMassBins {cheddar}

Body-mass bins

Description

Function that assigns each node in a Community to a body-mass bin.

Usage

BodyMassBins(community, lower=min(NP(community,'M'), na.rm=TRUE), 
             upper=max(NP(community,'M'), na.rm=TRUE), n.bins=10) 

Arguments

community

an object of class Community.

lower

lower bound of the bins.

upper

upper bound of the bins.

n.bins

the number of bins.

Details

Divides the range lower to upper in to n.bins equally-spaced log10(M) bins. Assigns each node in the community to one of these bins and returns the bins numbers. The returned vector has attributes bin.centres and breaks.

Value

A vector of length NumberOfNodes.

Author(s)

Lawrence Hudson

See Also

Community, NumberOfNodes

Examples

data(TL84)
BodyMassBins(TL84)