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title: "Alternatives to ordination in R: Visualizing community change relative to a specific point (CC206)"
blurb: "Replacing ordinations"
author: "PD Schloss"
date: 2022-04-21 11:00
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An ordination has a limited set of uses. But are there alternatives to ordination for displaying beta-diversity data? In this episode, Pat shares one method for showing the change in microbial communities relative to a specific time or geographic point using R. He'll demonstrate this approach by using `vegan`, `dplyr`, and `ggplot2`.


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## Code

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