Numerical Ecology with R

A practical guide to Numerical Ecology using the R language

Links to the authors' web pages

Daniel Borcard

François Gillet

Pierre Legendre

This page provides the data sets, R scripts, R functions and several useful links related to the book entitled "Numerical Ecology with R".

BEWARE: the URL provided in the book (adn.umontreal.ca/~numericalecology/numecolR) will soon be removed. Please use the new address: numericalecology.com/numecolR/

Scripts, functions and data - Second edition

This material includes a script to install the necessary packages; it also provides the data sets, the R scripts for all chapters (cross-platform) and several R functions. Latest major update: 2022-04-02 (R version 4.1.3). Added 2022-10-11 in the dataset folder: pdf file with full names of oribatid mites.
Complete material, updated for R 4.1.3
Important additional information: before using this material please make sure you have updated both R to version 4.1.3 and the adespatial package (including all its dependencies) to version 0.3-16.
Material for the first edition of the book, February 2017, tested with R 3.3.2. No longer updated.
First edition material

Errata, addenda and updates - Second edition

This file provides corrections of small mistakes found in the printed edition (Errata), as well as improved explanations and additional, recently published information (Addenda). The corrections or improvements to the R code have been made in the corresponding scripts. Latest update: 2020-07-19.
pdf file

Chinese translation - Second edition

Borcard, D., F. Gillet & P. Legendre. 2020. Numerical ecology with R, 2nd Chinese edition (translation: J. Lai, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences). Higher Education Press, Beijing.
Front cover

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Japanese translation - Second edition of the English book

Borcard, D., F. Gillet & P. Legendre. 2023. Numerical ecology with R (Rによる数値⽣態学), Japanese edition. Kyoritsu Shuppan Co. Ltd, Tokyo. Publication date: 28 February 2023.
Front cover

Springer web page of the book - second edition