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<p>Dear Dr. Jombart,</p>
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<p>I am currently trying to perform a sPCA, and I have noticed something unexpected while formatting my datasets.</p>
<p>I have used the function df2genind, then tried to add the spatial data using the command:</p>
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<p>my_genind_obj$other$xy<- my_dataframe[,c('X','Y')] #X and Y are the utm coordinate columns;<br>
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<p>When checking that the data were imported correctly though, I realized that the coordinates were sorted in the same order than the original dataframe; the isolates themselves though (my_genind_obj$table) were sorted in some other way (it seemed alphanumerical,
but isolate names starting with "X" were put before the ones starting with "P"). I guess this breaks the correlation between each isolate and its location. My isolate names are aplhanumeric, and the names starting with "X" also contain dots (e.g. "X.14.4.555)".
Am I missing something? Is there a better way to attach the spatial information so to keep correlation between different pieces of information?<br>
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<p>I am using adegenet v.2.0.1 on Windows 7.<br>
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Thank you for your kind attention,</p>
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px">Massimiliano S. Tagliamonte</div>
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