# Convert field records to community matrix

`data2mat.Rd`

Convert field records to community matrix

    data2mat(data = data)

## Arguments

data | A dataframe with the the following columns: `species`, `plots` or `sites`, `abundance`.

## Value

Return a community matrix ready for computing diversity indices.

## References

None

## Author

Jinlong Zhang jinlongzhang01@gmail.com

## Examples

    data(testdata)
    spmatrix <- data2mat(testdata)