[Vegan-commits] r1790 - pkg/vegan/inst

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Author: jarioksa
Date: 2011-09-04 20:02:30 +0200 (Sun, 04 Sep 2011)
New Revision: 1790

Modified:
   pkg/vegan/inst/NEWS.Rd
Log:
NEWS about eventstar

Modified: pkg/vegan/inst/NEWS.Rd
===================================================================
--- pkg/vegan/inst/NEWS.Rd	2011-09-04 17:50:02 UTC (rev 1789)
+++ pkg/vegan/inst/NEWS.Rd	2011-09-04 18:02:30 UTC (rev 1790)
@@ -49,6 +49,14 @@
       \code{metaMDSrotate}. This function can rotate both
       \code{metaMDS} and \code{monoMDS} results so that the first axis
       is parallel to an environmental vector.
+
+      \item \code{eventstar} finds the minimum of the evenness profile
+      on the Tsallis entropy, and uses this to find the corresponding
+      values of diversity, evenness and numbers equivalent following
+      Mendes et al. (Ecography 31, 450-456; 2008). The code was
+      contributed by Eduardo Ribeira Cunha and Heloisa Beatriz
+      Antoniazi Evangelista and adapted to \pkg{vegan} by Peter
+      Solymos.
       
       \item \code{fitspecaccum} to fit non-linear regression models to
       the species accumulation results from \code{specaccum}. The