Numerical Ecology with R

A practical guide to Numerical Ecology using the R language

Links to the authors' web pages

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BEWARE: the URL provided in the book (adn.umontreal.ca/~numericalecology/numecolR) is no longer active. Please use the new address: numericalecology.com/numecolR/

Translations available of the second edition (2018) of the English book

Chinese translation (second Chinese 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

Japanese translation

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.
Front cover

French translation - available soon - disponible bientôt

Borcard, D., F. Gillet & P. Legendre. L'écologie numérique en R, Édition française. Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal.

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. Added 2022-10-11 in the dataset folder: pdf file with full names of oribatid mites.

Complete material, updated for R 4.4.2; installation script updated to R 4.4.2. Latest update: 2025-03-20.

Material for the first edition of the book, February 2017, tested with R 3.3.2. No longer updated.
First edition material

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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: 2025-03-15.
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Springer web page of the book - second edition