R scripts used for calculations in Shade et al. 2013 ISMEJ
"A meta-analysis of changes in bacterial and archaeal communities with time"
by A Shade, JG Caporaso, J Handelsman, R Knight, N Fierer
The ISME Journal 7 (8), 1493-1506
- VarDistance.R: calculates median absolute deviance, standard deviation, and variance on pairwise community distances or dissimilaries within user-defined categorical groups.