I am working on finalizing a NMDS plot that I created in vegan and ggplot2 but cannot figure out how to add envfit species-loading vectors to the plot. When I try to it says
Start with adding libraries. Additionally library grid
is necessary.
library(ggplot2)
library(vegan)
library(grid)
data(dune)
Do metaMDS analysis and save results in data frame.
NMDS.log<-log(dune+1)
sol <- metaMDS(NMDS.log)
NMDS = data.frame(MDS1 = sol$points[,1], MDS2 = sol$points[,2])
Add species loadings and save them as data frame. Directions of arrows cosines are stored in list vectors
and matrix arrows
. To get coordinates of the arrows those direction values should be multiplied by square root of r2
values that are stored in vectors$r
. More straight forward way is to use function scores()
as provided in answer of @Gavin Simpson. Then add new column containing species
names.
vec.sp<-envfit(sol$points, NMDS.log, perm=1000)
vec.sp.df<-as.data.frame(vec.sp$vectors$arrows*sqrt(vec.sp$vectors$r))
vec.sp.df$species<-rownames(vec.sp.df)
Arrows are added with geom_segment()
and species names with geom_text()
. For both tasks data frame vec.sp.df
is used.
ggplot(data = NMDS, aes(MDS1, MDS2)) +
geom_point(aes(data = MyMeta, color = MyMeta$amt))+
geom_segment(data=vec.sp.df,aes(x=0,xend=MDS1,y=0,yend=MDS2),
arrow = arrow(length = unit(0.5, "cm")),colour="grey",inherit_aes=FALSE) +
geom_text(data=vec.sp.df,aes(x=MDS1,y=MDS2,label=species),size=5)+
coord_fixed()